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It was founded by 800 U.S. Post Office employees who wanted to leverage their buying power by purchasing goods directly from wholesalers, and eliminate the additional markup of a retail store. The Board of Directors, headed by Robert Kee, established the first store on Slauson Avenue in Los Angeles. Members would come into the store and find ...
Gemco was an American chain of membership department stores that was owned by San Leandro -based Lucky Stores, a California supermarket company which eventually became part of Albertsons. Gemco operated from 1959 until closing in late 1986. A number of the west coast stores leases were sold to Target which fueled their entry into California.
The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department (SDFD) is an all-risk, all-hazards fire department, providing fire protection and emergency medical services to the city of San Diego, California. [2] The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department is the second-largest municipal fire department in the state of California, after Los Angeles .
The logic is simple: Passing the employee discount to a non-employee costs the company money. GM says that the employee purchase program can save a buyer from $1,000 to $9,000.
White Front. White Front was a chain of discount department stores in California and the western United States from 1959 through the mid-1970s. The stores were noted for the architecture of their store fronts which was an enormous, sweeping archway with the store name spelled in individual letters fanned across the top.
San Diego Business Journal; San Diego City Beat; San Diego Jewish Journal; San Diego Magazine; San Diego Reader; San Diego Union-Tribune (acquired by Tribune Publishing) Times of San Diego; Retail. Le Travel Store (closed) Mor Furniture; Petco; PriceSmart; Sports. BikeBandit; BMC USA; Competitor Group, Inc. Ellsworth Handcrafted Bicycles ...
Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares. May Company California was an American chain of department stores operating in Southern California and Nevada, with headquarters at its flagship Downtown Los Angeles store until 1983 [1] when it moved them to North Hollywood.
Unimart was a discount retailer in the Greater Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan areas in the 1960s. Its locations variously became Two Guys, Gemco, and FedMart.Unimart was owned by Food Giant Inc. until it merged in 1967 with Vornado, the owner of Two Guys, which quickly converted Unimart stores to Two Guys.