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The first major Bradlees store closings came in 1988, when it exited the Southern United States. Bradlees remained profitable into the early 1990s. In 1992, a year after its parent company becoming public once again, Stop & Shop Inc. sold Bradlees to an investment group, and the chain continued as a separate company.
The New York store also housed a large organ; it was sold at auction in 1955 for $1,200 (~$10,655 in 2023) after the New York store closed the year prior. [ 10 ] News of the Titanic 's sinking was transmitted to Wanamaker's wireless station in New York City , and given to anxious crowds waiting outside—yet another first for an American retail ...
The company sold the chain's 18-store northern division to Bradlees, a division of Stop & Shop, in 1985. The remaining stores closed. [19] In 1985, the company closed its catalog business after 113 years and began an aggressive policy of renovating its remaining stores.
The padrone system was a contract labor system utilized by many immigrant groups to find employment in the United States, most notably Italian, but also Greeks, Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican Americans. [1] The word 'padrone' is an Italian word meaning 'boss', 'manager' or 'owner' when translated into English.
Zayre was founded in 1919 as the New England Trading Company in Boston, Massachusetts, by brothers Max and Morris Feldberg.The brothers were Jewish immigrants who fled Russia to escape conscription in the Czar's army, settling in Chelsea, Massachusetts. [1]
The discount chain said it agreed to a sale ... Ohio-based company recently announced it was preparing to close ... NYC legal weed shop landed $7M in sales in 2024 — decades after owner was ...
Number of striking workers by year, Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to labor historians, the US has the most violent labor history of any industrialized nation. [250] [251] [252] Some historians have attempted to explain why a labor party did not emerge in the United States, in contrast to Western Europe. [253]
Bradlees' closing was completed in November, 1996. [37] Montgomery Wards closed its store at the end of 1997. [37] [38] By early 1998, after Wards' closing, the mall was only 50% occupied. [39] The movie theatres, operated at that point by Loew's Theatres and having seven screens, closed in July, 1999. [40]