Discount Sales

Dollar General Corporate Office

In October of 1939, former farmers James and Cal Turner opened J.L. Turner and Son with an initial investment of $5,000 each. The switch to retailing from farming resulted in annual sales above $2 million by the early 1950s. By the mid-1950s, this father and son team had 35 department stores in Kentucky and Tennessee. The first store actually called Dollar General wasn’t opened until 1955, with the idea that all items in the store would be $1 or less. The idea took off quickly and all J.L. Turner stores were changed to Dollar Generals. The chain reached 29 stores by 1959.

J.L. Turner died in 1964 and Dollar General went public in 1968. In 1977, Cal Turner, Jr. took over as president of the company, making him the third generation to run the company. Cal ran Dollar General until 2002.

In 2007, Dollar General was acquired by private equity firms and taken private. 2 years later, in 2009, the company was made public via IPO.

In 2014, the company was fined $52,000 by OSHA for health and safety violations in a Brooklyn store for blocking fire exit doors with merchandise. The company was fined again in 2016 also for blocking fire exits, as well as for exposing employees to possible electrocution by removing or not replacing face plates on electrical outlets.

In mid-2015, CEO Rick Dreiling announced his retirement and was replaced by COO Todd Vasos. That same year, the company posted annual revenue of $20.369 billion.

The company announced in September of 2016 that they had plans to hire an additional 10,000 employees and open 900 new stores in the next year, as well as an additional 1,000 in fiscal 2017.

The company acquired Family Dollar in 2017 and has stated that at least half of these stores will be rebranded to the Dollar General name.

Due to Trump’s tariff’s on Chinese goods, Dollar General stated that they would be forced to raise prices once the items stored in warehouses have been depleted.

In June 2019 FedEx and Dollar General announced a partnership which would allow customers to drop off packages at Dollar General stores for FedEx pickup and drop-off.

Dollar General settled a lawsuit in Vermont, which found more than 300 cases of stores listing one price on the shelf but charging a different price. The company agreed to pay $1.75 million but did not admit to any errors.

In 2016, the company has over 12,500 stores in 43 US states. The Dollar General corporate office is located in Goodlettsville, Tennessee.

Jeff Owen was promoted to CEO of the company in November 2022.

Dollar General

History

In 2007, Dollar General was acquired by private equity firms and taken private. 2 years later, in 2009, the company was made public via IPO.

In mid-2015, CEO Rick Dreiling announced his retirement and was replaced by COO Todd Vasos. That same year, the company posted annual revenue of $20.369 billion.

The company announced in September of 2016 that they had plans to hire an additional 10,000 employees and open 900 new stores in the next year, as well as an additional 1,000 in fiscal 2017.

The company acquired Family Dollar in 2017 and has stated that at least half of these stores will be rebranded to the Dollar General name.

Due to Trump’s tariff’s on Chinese goods, Dollar General stated that they would be forced to raise prices once the items stored in warehouses have been depleted.

In June 2019 FedEx and Dollar General announced a partnership which would allow customers to drop off packages at Dollar General stores for FedEx pickup and drop-off.

In 2016, the company has over 12,500 stores in 43 US states. The Dollar General corporate office is located in Goodlettsville, Tennessee.

Jeff Owen was promoted to CEO of the company in November 2022.

Boots UK Corporate Office

John Boots founded Boots stores in Nottingham, UK, back in 1849. When John passed away in 1860, his 10-year old son Jesse helped his mother continue to operate the herbal medicine shop. In 1888 the company incorporated as the Boots Pure Drug Company.

Today, Boots is one of the largest retailers in the UK and Ireland, both in revenue and number of shops, with at least 2,500 locations. The company offers health and beauty products, hearing care services, optician services, and prescription drugs.

n 2009 Boots Superintendent Pharmacist Paul Bennett was interviewed by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee about the company’s sale of homeopathic medicines. He told the committee that the company had no evidence to suggest that homeopathic medicines are efficacious but Boots sold them anyway, for reasons of “consumer choice”. The comments attracted significant media attention.

In July 2017, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service revealed that Boots was selling the “morning after” pill, which is an emergency contraceptive medication, at four times the cost. The company refused requests to join rival pharmacy retail chains to cease profiting financially from this medication. In a written response to BPAS, Boots revealed that they were frequently contacted by individuals who disapproved of the dispensing of such medication, which might be viewed as “incentivising inappropriate use”, an assertion which campaigners described as “insulting and sexist”. By the end of January 2018, Boots confirmed that it was now offering the discounted price on this medication in all of its pharmacies.

The company announced that at the end of September 2019, they would start charging for delivery service. Customers are outraged, claiming that Boots is putting a tax on sick people who require medication and can’t get to the pharmacy.

A makeup artist is claiming racial discrimination after discovering that only products for black haircare contained security tags to prevent theft.

The head office remains in Nottingham, where is has been for 170 years.

Boots

History

A makeup artist is claiming racial discrimination after discovering that only products for black haircare contained security tags to prevent theft.

The head office remains in Nottingham, where is has been for 170 years.

Fred’s Corporate Office

IN 1947, Paul Baddour and his two brothers opened a small discount store in Coldwater, Mississippi. While the company was originally incorporated as Baddour, Inc., Paul later named one of the stores after his brother Fred, and the name stuck.

The company opened stores in small towns and offered deeply discounted prices on closeout items. Fred’s stores did quite well, even competing against the giant Walmart by expanding store sizes from the usual 5,000 square feet to 30,000 square feet or more.

Fred’s has diversified into other areas, including Fred’s Pharmacy, Dollar Stores, GetWell Drug and Dollar, and the Yazoo Trading Company. In 2018, the company sold its prescription patient information to competitor Walgreens from their 185 pharmacies. Walgreens paid $165 million for this information after Fred’s was unable to purchase hundreds of Rite Aid pharmacies.

Fred’s is publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol FRED.

The company had annual revenue in 2016 of $2.125 billion but lost $66.5 million. This has caused the company to announce the closure of 159 stores in April 2019 which the company states were underperforming or whose leases were about to expire.

Fred’s company headquarters are located in Memphis, Tennessee.

Fred's

History

Fred’s is publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol FRED.

Fred’s company headquarters are located in Memphis, Tennessee.

Harmon Discount/ Face Values Corporate Office

Harmon Discount was founded in 1971. Although many people will always remember this discount store as Harmon Discount, its name was changed to Harmon Face Value in the mid-2000s, after it became a subsidiary of Bed Bath and Beyond.

Bed Bath and Beyond acquired the company in 2002. Many Bed Bath and Beyond locations include a “store within a store”, with a section set aside for Harmon Face Value products.

Since being acquired by BBB, the company has expanded to become one of the leading health, beauty and cosmetics retailers with 56 separate locations in the states of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The company provides a wide range of products and services related to health and beauty, including creams, lotions, and shampoo.

Harmon Face Values offers leading brands, including John Frieda, Nexxus, Fekkai, Organix, Pantene, Tresemme, and Marc Anthony. Additionally, the company provides its own Face Values brands on several beauty and health items. New stores, such as a New York store that opened in 2016, offered some typical BBB items, such as bedding, and even a few grocery items, such as milk, to help compete with small drug stores or convenience stores.

In January 2023, due to the poor performance of most Bed Bath and Beyond stores, all Harmon Face Values will close in the next few weeks.

Harmon Face Values headquarters are located in the BBB corporate office in Union, New Jersey.

Harmon Face Values

Bed Bath and Beyond acquired the company in 2002. Many Bed Bath and Beyond locations include a “store within a store”, with a section set aside for Harmon Face Value products.

History

In January 2023, due to the poor performance of most Bed Bath and Beyond stores, all Harmon Face Values will close in the next few weeks.

Harmon Face Values headquarters are located in the BBB corporate office in Union, New Jersey.

Unclaimed Baggage Center Corporate Office

Doyle Owens was selling insurance when a customer told him that Trailways was selling unclaimed baggage, site unseen. Doyle took $300 and bought every piece of luggage. Renting a house, Owens and his wife was shocked at the items they found in the bags and their value.

The Unclaimed Baggage Center is based on the same idea, only today the company has contracts with most of the airline companies. Bags are purchased at a flat rate. Employees of the company go through every item in every bag. Clothes are dry cleaned on site, other items are cleaned and appraisals are offered for more expensive items. The store has more than 40,000 square feet of space, but the company says it has no plans to sell items on line.

Unclaimed Baggage Center says it stocks at leas 7,000 new items every day. The company is still owned and operated by the Owens family with headquarters being located in Scottsboro, Alabama.

Unclaimed Baggage Center

Unclaimed Baggage Center says it stocks at leas 7,000 new items every day. The company is still owned and operated by the Owens family with headquarters being located in Scottsboro, Alabama.