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American merchant Aaron Montgomery Ward (1843-1913) helped create mail order retailing and built the large mail-order house which bears his name.
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Opened the first five & dime store.
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S.S. Kresge Company founded by Sebastian S. Kresge. Nowadays, the company is known as Kmart.
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Hechinger stores founded - First Home Improvement Store
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Founded in 1922 by the Kaufman brothers.
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Kresge Canadian subsidiary S.S. Kresge Company, Ltd. was founded
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Zellers Founded by Walter P. Zeller in Canada. W.T.Grant Co. becomes owner of Canada's Zellers discount chain in 1959.
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IKEA was founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad in Sweden and it is owned by a Dutch-registered foundation controlled by the Kamprad family.
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First Discount Store.
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Circuit City Stores, Inc. Founded as Wards Company
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Simpson-Sears founded in Canada.
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Gilman Brothers, opened their first Ames store in Southbridge, Mass. Also major in discount retailing. Run out of business in 2002.
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In 1962, the first Target store opened in Roseville, Minnesota, and in 2000 the company changed its name from Dayton Hudson to Target.
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Wal-Mart stores founded by Sam Walton in Arkansas
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Max Kohl opened his first Kohl's Store in 1963.
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Richard M. Schulze and business partner James Wheeler open Sound of Music, an audio specialty store, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the future Best Buy.
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Opening of the first Price Club. Foundation for companies like Costco.
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The Home Depot was founded in 1978 by Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Ron Brill, and Pat Farrah.
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Founded by James Sinegal and Jeffrey Brotman, Costco opened its first warehouse in Seattle, Washington, on September 15, 1983.
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Wal-Mart becomes the world's largest retailer with $32.6 billion in sales.
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Wal-Mart entered Canada with the acquisition of 122 of the 166 Woolco stores.
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Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and launched it online in 1995
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On January 22, 2002, Kmart filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Kmart and Sears, Roebuck & Co. to merge to create Sears-Holding Corporation.
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