Woolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W. Woolworth Company. It was a full-line discount department store unlike the five-and-dime Woolworth stores which operated at the time. At its peak, Woolco had hundreds of stores in the US, as well as in Canada and the United Kingdom. While the American stores were closed in 1983, the chain remained active in Canada until it was sold in 1994 to rival Walmart, which was looking to enter the Canadian market. All of the former UK Woolco stores were sold by Kingfisher, which had bought the UK Woolworth business, to Gateway which subsequently sold them to Asda.
Woolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W. Woolworth Company. It was a full-line discount...
Mississauga, Ontario, it was founded on March 17, 1994, with the purchase of the Woolco Canada chain from the F. W. Woolworth Company. Originally consisting of...
Stores, Kuhn's-Big K (sold to Walmart in 1981), TG&Y[citation needed] and Woolco (closed in 1983, part sold to Wal-Mart) among others. Walmart, Kmart, and...
Indigo, The Rec Room, and Food District (Western Expansion). Woolco (1973–1994) - Woolco was acquired by Walmart, which replaces it. Zellers (Store 279)...
States. In the 1990s, Thicke was the spokesman for the Canadian division of Woolco department stores until its demise in 1994. In 2007, Thicke appeared in...
became Héritage. In 1994, Wal-Mart took the former space of Woolco after Woolworth sold Woolco to Walmart. In 1995, Héritage was renamed Maxi. In the summer...
the United States Ames, Bradlees, Caldor, Service Merchandise, Venture, Woolco, and Zayre were national discount stores that closed due to changes in shopping...
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Walmart has operated in Canada since it acquired 122 stores comprising the Woolco division of Woolworth Canada, Inc on January 14, 1994. As of October 31...
600 Sam's Clubs PACE Membership Warehouse (converted 91 to Sam's Club ) Woolco Canada (converted to Walmart) Asda (acquired in 1999, later sold to EG Group...
vacant J.M. Fields building to the F.W. Woolworth Company which opened a Woolco Department Store in the building. The Pantry Pride store was leased to a...
The Hampshire Centre. The store was eventually purchased by Sainsburys. Woolco 1966 Discontinued, rebranded as Woolworth and later bought by Gateway in...
at the south end and a Zehrs supermarket at the north. A new wing with Woolco was added on the east in the early 1970s along with 20 stores, and Simpsons...
store in 1974. For a while there was a chain of discount stores called Woolco. By 1997, the original chain he founded had been reduced to 400 stores,...
trees. Over the years, stores that came and went included J.J. Newberry, Woolco, Ohrbach's, Barker Bros., Lucky Stores, Market Basket, the La Mirada Theatre...
Loockerman Street in downtown Dover to an anchor space at the mall in 1968. Woolco also anchored the shopping center. This store was shuttered in early 1983...
regional drugstore chain, a PLCB liquor store (in Pennsylvania), a Kmart, or Woolco (earlier centers had a Woolworth), and in rarer cases a department store...
reports likened to an "invasion of Canada," namely the acquisition of 120 Woolco stores across the country. Though Wal-mart was barred from selling the private-label...
1990s, a stand-alone Sobeys store was opened next to Woolco. In March 1994 Walmart bought 122 Woolco stores from Woolworth Canada in which the Mayflower...
Walmart. This was in marked contrast to the takeover of Woolco by Walmart in 1994, where all Woolco employees of the acquired stores were retained. The President...
stores during the St. Patrick's Day festival in the town during March 1972. Woolco joined Belk-Matthews as anchors, with stores such as SupeRx drug, Garrett's...
Palmera) in 1970. A Woolco store was later added to the plaza. By 1982, Parkdale Plaza had lost Lichensteins', Whites, H-E-B, and Woolco. Linens N' More took...
1972) and a corridor of 35 smaller stores. In 1980, the mall expanded with Woolco department store and a food court. It expanded again in 1992 with Eatons...
Fashion Square when it opened in September 1975, the mall was anchored by a Woolco and The Bay, and was one of only three malls in the city, along with Polo...
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