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Family Fair, Toledo newest department store, will open Monday at noon in the former Air-Way Appliance factory building at West Bankcroft Street and Auburn Avenue... Covering 100,000 square feet of floor space on two floors...
A 90,000 square foot shopping center near the intersection of Harlem avenue and Demster street, Niles will open Wednesday. The supermarket will be a National Tea store, Sav-Mor Drug, Inc., Chicago will operate the drug store and Topps Discount Center, Inc., of Hartford, Conn., will have the department section. There will be no dividing walls between the stores.
Wednesday marked the grand opening of Louisville's new Family Fair Store, and thousands of shoppers drove out to the gigantic store in the new Hikes Point Shopping Center on Taylorsville Road at Hikes Point.
Interstate Department Stores Inc., announced yesterday the acquisition for "several millions in cash" of the four-store Children's Supermart, Inc., Washington.
Papers were filed at Dover, Del., yesterday for the Interstate Department Stores, Inc., to operate and acquire department stores in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, New York, and other states now operated by the Federman-Stillman interests it learned this morning. The Interstate Department Stores, Inc., is to act as a holding company for these various stores and is to be headed by Leo G. Federman.
Interstate Department Stores, Inc., announced it has acquired White Front Stores, Inc., Los Angeles, a two-unit low markup operation with volume of more $20 million a year.
It is headed by Frank Beckerman, president and founder.
Stockholders voted to change the company name to Interstate Stores, Inc., a move that Cantor says, more clearly reflects the company's activity.
The stores involved are located mostly in cities of from 35,000 to 235,000 and carry popular priced line of merchandise. The stores which will comprise the Interstate chain were formerly owned of Federman and Stillman department store groups. The first Federman store was established in Akron, O., about 20 years ago. The stores are all popular priced department stores but do not carry furniture or musical instruments. No sales are made on credit or the installment plan. All the stores have been closely affiliated in the past and the president consolidation will not disturb the local management in any way. Buying will be completely centralized, continuing the present cooperative buying offices.
The Interstate Department Stores, Inc., will open their 27th unit., about Oct. 15. The new store is approximately 68x180 feet and consists of four floors and a basement. Complete lines of general department store merchandise will be carried. The Evansville Dry Goods Co. is the name under which the new store will trade. Hill's Dry Goods Co., Inc., the Interstate chain's Davenport, Ia., unit, will open about Oct. 1
The Aurora Dry Goods Co., of Aurura, Ill., has just been acquired by the Interstate Department Stores, Inc., making it the 31st unit to be purchased. This will be make four new stores which will be opened this month.
The recent opening of the Waukegan Dry Goods Co., Waukegan, Ill., the latest acquisition of the Interstate Department Stores, brought capacity crowds to the store.
With the opening of the new Syracuse and Trenton stores, Interstate Department Stores, Inc., completed its 1935 expansion program. Five new units were exstablished during the year, giving the organization a chain of 40 stores. They are in Marion and Anderson, Ind., and Trenton, N.J. The two other stores in Evansville, Ind., and Syracuse, N.Y., represented removals to larger and more modern quarters.
Interstate Department Stores formally opened its 47th outlet here. The unit retains the Bailes Department Store half-century-old name.
Interstate Department Stores, Inc., will open eight low-overhead type stores within the next year, Sol W. Canter, president announced. To be known as Family Fair stores, the new outlets marked the second move in recent weeks toward discount-house type operations for Interstate. At the end of April, Mr. Cantor announced the 49-store chain had acquired White Front Stores, Inc. The first new Family Fair store schedule for opening is in Canton, Ohio.
Interstate recently closed its Hill's stores in Madison and Racine and opened new Topps Stores in Madison Green Bay, Wis.
Interstate Department Stores Inc., announced yesterday the acquisition for "several millions in cash" of the four-store Children's Supermart, Inc., Washington.
Children's Supermarts, Inc., a chain of four discount toy stores in the Washington area, has been acquired by Interstate Department Stores, Inc., a New York-based chain. Interstate operates 40 stores under the name of Topps in 11 states in the East and Midwest. Another 22 stores under the name of White Front are operated in California. The chain also operates conventional department stores, but 85 per cent of the gross is derived from discount units.
Interstate Department Stores Inc. acquired Children's Bargain Town Inc., an eight-store Chicago-based discount toy chain, for an undisclosed amount of cash. Children's Bargain Town, 11 years old and privately held until its acquisition by Interstate, will operate under its present management as a subsidiary. Interstate also operates 26 White Fronts discount stores on the West Coast, 60 Topps discount stores in the East and Midwest and 32 department stores.
So far 41 Topps discount stores have been closed, 11 are expected to be closed by July 1974 and the remaining nine will also be closed. Of its operating units, 25 are department stores, 43 are discount stores and 48 are toy supermarkets.
The first of a planned chain of department stores, Family Fair, opened here (Canton).
The first of three self-service Family Fair department stores planned for the Louisville area open here on Wednesday.
For a time, Interstate opened its own hard sell outlets - under the name Family Fair stores - in the East. Four such units are in operation. However the company abandon the program in 1960 when it took over the Topps discount chain.
Lemchen was co-founder of Topps Discount Stores, which Interstate acquired in 1960, and now has blossomed into 61 units.
Topps Department Store, a new 30,000 square-foot one-level operation has opened at 3155 Main Street.
A second Topps discount department store is under construction in New Haven and scheduled to open this fall.
A 90,000 square foot shopping center near the intersection of Harlem avenue and Demster street, Niles will open Wednesday. The supermarket will be a National Tea store, Sav-Mor Drug, Inc., Chicago will operate the drug store and Topps Discount Center, Inc., of Hartford, Conn., will have the department section. There will be no dividing walls between the stores.
Topps Discount Center, a Hartford, Conn., soft goods discount operation, will open its first Midwestern store in suburban Niles, Ill., in an under-one-roof operation with a food chain and a local drug chain.
This is the ninth unit for the Hartford, Conn., based discount operation, and the first in the Midwest, according to Frank Beckerman, president.
A Topps Discount City will open on Kings Highway here (Fairfield) at the end of the month.
Interstate Department Stores, Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Topps Stores, a privately-owned, 10-store discount retail chain with stores in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Illinois.
A new Canadian-based firm, Topp's Discount Department Stores, Ltd. has formed here. The new firm is not connected in any way with the Topps discount operation of Interstate Stores.
Interstate Department Stores, Inc., announced it has acquired White Front Stores, Inc., Los Angeles, a two-unit low markup operation with volume of more $20 million a year.
Interstate Department Stores, Inc., will open eight low-overhead type stores within the next year, Sol W. Canter, president announced. To be known as Family Fair stores, the new outlets marked the second move in recent weeks toward discount-house type operations for Interstate. At the end of April, Mr. Cantor announced the 49-store chain had acquired White Front Stores, Inc. The first new Family Fair store schedule for opening is in Canton, Ohio.
Interstate Department Stores Inc. acquired Children's Bargain Town Inc., an eight-store Chicago-based discount toy chain, for an undisclosed amount of cash. Children's Bargain Town, 11 years old and privately held until its acquisition by Interstate, will operate under its present management as a subsidiary. Interstate also operates 26 White Fronts discount stores on the West Coast, 60 Topps discount stores in the East and Midwest and 32 department stores.
Interstate Department Stores, Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Topps Stores, a privately-owned, 10-store discount retail chain with stores in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Illinois.
