| Sam Walton reinvented logistics, turning a five-and-dime into Wal-Mart Stores Inc, which draws almost 140 million shoppers a week. |
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| The building they chose was originally a five-and-dime store and most recently a jewelry wholesaler. |
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| The building, at 151-153 Main Street, was formerly a five-and-dime store. |
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| Today's dollar store is a five-and-dime shop, adjusted for inflation. |
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| And few owners had more to say than Frank Woolworth, the five-and-dime king. |
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| She had stopped in at the five-and-dime to get cleaning supplies. |
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| They realized that the store needed to evolve to meet the needs of modern consumers, and so in 1986, Chesterton's hometown five-and-dime metamorphosed into a craft store. |
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| One of my nicest memories was going to the five-and-dime with my mother. |
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| They became partners in 1897 in two new five-and-dime stores in Memphis, Tenn., and Detroit, Mich. |
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| With the proceeds of the sale, he started up his five-and-dime store in Bentonville. |
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| Boice's meat market is gone, as is Lynch's Ben Franklin five-and-dime. |
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| People of conscience around the country, including Pasadena, picketed outside local Woolworth and Kress five-and-dime stores in solidarity with the Southern sit-ins. |
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| One day in 1906, an unemployed clothing merchant named Carl Laemmle, who was thinking about starting a five-and-dime, happened to walk into a packed Chicago nickelodeon. |
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| You could find a five-and-dime on every block. |
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| On gritty Front Street in Greenport, The Arcade is a five-and-dime store that dates from the mid-19th century. |
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| His favorite thing to do with her was to eat lunch at the counter of a five-and-dime store. |
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| The stodgy five-and-dime store of the past has been replaced by the wacky 99-cent store of the present. |
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| His father, Harry, an insurance agent who started his own firm, met his mother, Ida, when she was working in her father's five-and-dime store. |
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