When was the last discount store in the US?
When was the last discount store in the US?
This discount store/supermarket had the distinction of being the very last discount store to open in our immediate neighborhood before the 1960s came to an end; it opened around August or September of 1969 and it earned our regular patronage during the last three years we lived there.
How long do you have to take something back from a store?
Stores are generally allowed to adopt any return policy, though it should be prominently posted at the point of sale. If there’s no posted policy, some states impose one. For instance, beginning Dec. 1, New York will require retailers who don’t have their own policy to give consumers 30 days to take something back, up from 20 days.
What did they buy at discount stores in the 60s?
Equally inexpensive was much of the merchandise which could be had at the discount stores of that era. Summer print dresses for around $4 or $5. Men’s slacks for about the same price–no overpriced designer duds at these places.
Who was the person who bought Cerro Gordo?
He was running a highly rated hostel in Austin, Texas, when the opportunity arose to buy Cerro Gordo. Underwood and his business partner Jon Bier, founder of a boutique PR agency, bought the entire town for $1.4 million.
Stores are generally allowed to adopt any return policy, though it should be prominently posted at the point of sale. If there’s no posted policy, some states impose one. For instance, beginning Dec. 1, New York will require retailers who don’t have their own policy to give consumers 30 days to take something back, up from 20 days.
When did the gem store in Rochester go out of business?
Officials announced plans in early 1973 that several GEM stores were closing, including the one in Rochester. Nearly 300 people worked at that store, about 60 percent of them GEM employees and the rest for leased departments. By then, GEM had opened membership to anyone for the past two years. A going-out-of-business sale drew enormous crowds here.
Can a retailer cancel a purchase if it was a mistake?
The issue gets murky if the retailer begins processing the order, something that is more likely to happen online, says Jane Winn, a professor at the University of Washington Law School. But even then, she says, a merchant might be able to cancel the purchase if the price was so low that a buyer should have known it was mistake.
When did Kodak take over the gem store?
By the mid-1960s, there were reportedly more than a million GEM members throughout the U.S. and Canada. Kodak eventually took over the GEM building, which is still standing. The store itself is just a memory.
