Rices Nachmans was an upscale

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chain that, at its peak, had eight locations in

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and the surrounding Hampton Roads area. Stores included

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on Granby St. and Ward's Corner (opened 1952)."Rice's and Hofheimer's at Wards Corner"
''Virginian-Pilot'' (Feb. 26, 2014) The Wards Corner location was in the same building as a

Hofheimer's Hofheimer's was a Norfolk, Virginia-based chain of shoe stores that was once a leading East Coast retailer. Victor Strasburger founded the company with the three Hofheimer brothers in 1885. it specialized in upscale men's and women's footwear, incl ...

shoe store. This building was demolished in 2000, and as of 2018, is the location of a

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pharmacy. The stores were converted to

Hess's Hess's was a department store chain based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The company started in 1897 with one store, originally known as Hess Brothers, and grew to nearly 80 stores by its peak in the late 1980s. The chain's stores were closed or sol ...

stores in 1985 after the chain was sold to Hess's by owner

Phillips-Van Heusen PVH Corp., formerly known as the Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation, is an American clothing company which owns brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Warner's, Olga and True & Co. The company also licenses brands such as Kenneth Cole New Yo ...

.Phillips-Van Heusen to sell Rices Nachmans to Hess's
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'', September 13, 1984; retrieved from highbeam.com, January 24, 2009

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