Woolworth didn't hatch Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ).
Montgomery Ward filed for Chapter 11, and Woolworth closed its namesake stores last year.
And my mom would go to Woolworth's and she would inevitably go to the sewing department.
The character of Winfield House named after Hutton's grandfather, Frank Winfield Woolworth fluctuates with the occupants.
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When he was just 12, he picketed a Woolworth's store in Boston in support of the sit-ins in the South.
Mystery shopping began in the 1930s with three men touring the country, staking out Woolworth's and Kresge's (now Kmart) department stores.
The firm says his business strategy was to set up in front of Woolworth and to sell customers "what Woolworths don't stock".
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The first round of Woolworths closures comes nearly 100 years after American F W Woolworth opened his first UK store in Liverpool.
The trend swept through Paris, landing in New York, where Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton asked Cartier to create a tiger of her own.
Built for Frank Woolworth in 1915, the neo-French Renaissance mansion is 35 feet wide, with 14-foot-high ceilings, grand fireplaces and formal parlor and breakfast room.
To remain stagnant, he says, would risk becoming the next Woolworth.
If businesses don't evolve, they end up like Atari, Pan Am and Woolworth's, onetime industry leaders that crashed against the rocks of strategy, innovation and competition.
The following three companies, nowhere to be found on the Thomson Reuters list of innovators could, I suspect, meet the fate of Kodak, Woolworth and Atari.
Arch-gigolo Porfirio Rubirosa was married first to the daughter of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, later to tobacco heiress Doris Duke and then to Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton.
Within weeks of the ODJB's engagement, Columbia Graphophone Co. executives caught wind of the uptown excitement and invited the band down to its Woolworth Building recording studio.
The company was swamped by demand following the offer, which was made through Kingfisher's Comet and Woolworth's stores, and was forced to limit access for some subscribers.
It was designed by Junzo Yoshimura, a pupil of Antonin Raymond, who worked on the Woolworth Building in Manhattan and with Frank Lloyd Wright on the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.
Jason isn't old enough to fully understand black and white, why his grandmother was sent to jail for ordering a hamburger at a Woolworth lunch counter in 1960, or how an ill-used child's soul might never find its way back home.
Jennings, a respected retailer, who in recent years ran Woolworth South Africa and previously held senior positions with Debenhams in London, Saks Fifth Avenue in New York, Harrods and House of Fraser in England, Brown Thomas in Ireland and Holt Renfrew in Canada.
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Barbara Hutton, the heir to the Woolworth fortune and one of the richest women in the world, returned to London in 1945 to find the red brick mansion she had built for herself in decay (it had been used by the air force).
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