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Ames Department Stores, Inc., was an American chain of discount stores based in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, United States.The company was founded in 1958 with a store in Southbridge, Massachusetts, and at its peak operated 700 stores in 20 states, including the Northeast, Upper South, Midwest, and the District of Columbia, making it the fourth-largest discount retailer in the country.
The chain was founded in 1968 when Target founder John F. Geisse went to work for May Department Stores. [1] Under an antitrust settlement reached with the Department of Justice, May was unable to acquire any more retail chains at the time, and the department-store company needed a way to compete against the emerging discount-store chains.
The first store was called Thrift D Discount Center. [15] The store expanded into five additional states in 1965 and went public as Rite Aid in 1968. [16] [17] It moved to the New York Stock Exchange in 1970. [18] Ten years after its first store opened, Rite Aid operated 267 locations in 10 states.
Rexall was founded in 1904 during the early days of the United Drug Company and quickly established itself as a major retail pharmacy chain. At the same time, Tamblyn Drugs was establishing itself in Toronto, Ontario, and would eventually become Pharma Plus. These two companies would later merge to form the Rexall Pharmacy Group. [3]
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By 2023, five locations in Seattle had been closed by Rite Aid, including a flagship store in the Chinatown–International District neighborhood. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] A sixth Seattle store in Lower Queen Anne , the chain's only 24-hour pharmacy in the city, closed in September 2023.
Action store in a former church in Hoorn, Netherlands Action store in Overmere, Belgium Action in department store in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland. Action is a Dutch international discount store chain with a majority ownership held by British private equity firm 3i, with more than 80% of the shares. [3]
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