Junior Department Stores
A junior department store in North America is a type of retailer that experienced growth from the late 1930s through the 1960s, but is no longer common today, as retail moved increasingly towards discount stores like Walmart and Target Corporation, Target, and Big-box store, big box off-price stores like Ross Dress For Less, Marshalls and TJ Maxx. Several types of stores were identified as junior department stores, all of which had in common merchandise organized into departments and store sizes ranging from (according to author James Cooper) but sometimes smaller, especially in the case of large variety stores that promoted themselves as junior department stores. The types of stores called junior department stores included: *Larger format variety stores, also known as dime stores or 5 and 10 cent stores. Especially W. T. Grant and TG&Y promoted its locations as "junior department stores", but also at times J. J. Newberry and even Thrifty Drug Stores, which originated as a drug sto ...
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Discount Stores
A discount store or discounter offers a retail format in which products are sold at prices that are in principle lower than an actual or supposed "full retail price". Discounters rely on bulk purchasing and efficient distribution to keep down costs. Types (United States) Discount stores in the United States may be classified into different types: Hypermarkets (superstores) Discount superstores such as Walmart or Target sell general merchandise in a big-box store; many have a full grocery selection and are thus hypermarkets, though that term is not generally used in North America. In the 1960s and 1970s the term "discount department store" was used, and chains such as Kmart, Zodys and TG&Y billed themselves as such. The term "discount department store" or "off-price department store" is sometimes applied to big-box discount retailers of apparel and home goods, such as Ross Dress For Less, Marshalls, TJ Maxx, and Kohls. Category killers So-called category killer stores, speciali ...
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