The Fair Store
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| The Fair Store | |
| FAIR STORE | |
| Type | discount department store |
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| Founded | 1874 |
| Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois |
| Industry | Retail |
| Products | Apparel, fabrics, furniture, sewing machines, baby buggies, toys and games for adults, inexpensive household items |
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The Fair Store was a discount department Store in the Chicago, Illinois area. The store was founded in 1874-75.[1] Founder Ernst J. Lehmann offered odd prices (i. e., prices not in multiples of five cents) to save customers a few pennies on every purchase.[2]
The Fair Store - was promoting itself as a Discount Department Store in the early 1900's in 1905. It states in 1915 in a booklet published by the store stated "The Fair Store is still, as it always has been and undoubtedly always will be, the store of the people, the down-town shopping center for the Savers, the market place for the Thrifty." In 1925 the stores were sold to Kmart founding chain S.S. Kresge.[3]
[edit] Trivia
- Store motto: A Great Store in a Great City.
- The Fair - name was according to Lehmann because "the store was like a fair because if offered many different things for sale at a cheap price."
[edit] References
- ^ 'Christmas on State Street 1940's and Beyond ISBN 0-7385-1972-3 by Robert P. Ledermann page 33 founding date'
- ^ [1]'The Fair Store, State and Adams, Chicago, IL
- ^ [2]'The Chicago Jazz Age link store history
- ^ 'Christmas on State Street 1940's and Beyond ISBN 0-7385-1972-3 trivia information'
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