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| Berdine's Turns 100 Years Old in 2008! |
CONSIDER this. How many stores are successful enough to have survived for 100 years, a
full century!?
In our world today, it seems like stores pop up and are gone in a week, and mega malls and
chain stores that looks like hundreds of other identical clones dot the landscape. Finding
any buildings, much less a business, that is 100 years old is difficult in many places outside
of historic areas. Sears & Roebuck opened their first store in 1925 having been a catalog
company prior to then. Sam Walton began Wal-Mart in 1962. Berdine's had been
successfully in business for 54 years by that time.
5 and Dime stores were once a cornerstone of American small towns and cities.
Woolworth's, W.T. Grant, J.J. Newberry’s, McCrory’s, Kresge, Ben Franklin Stores and so
the list goes- none made it to the century mark as a 5 & Dime.
As Berdine's 5 & Dime celebrates our century mark we are pleased and proud to continue
the same shopping experience that your parents, grandparents, and great grandparents
knew.
Rarely does anything attain the century mark. We intend to mark this milestone, 2008, with
events to remember. We will have commemorative items made to sell and give to visitors.
We plan monthly birthday cakes. We hope you can come visit us and share our experience.
See you in Harrisville, West Virginia!
full century!?
In our world today, it seems like stores pop up and are gone in a week, and mega malls and
chain stores that looks like hundreds of other identical clones dot the landscape. Finding
any buildings, much less a business, that is 100 years old is difficult in many places outside
of historic areas. Sears & Roebuck opened their first store in 1925 having been a catalog
company prior to then. Sam Walton began Wal-Mart in 1962. Berdine's had been
successfully in business for 54 years by that time.
5 and Dime stores were once a cornerstone of American small towns and cities.
Woolworth's, W.T. Grant, J.J. Newberry’s, McCrory’s, Kresge, Ben Franklin Stores and so
the list goes- none made it to the century mark as a 5 & Dime.
As Berdine's 5 & Dime celebrates our century mark we are pleased and proud to continue
the same shopping experience that your parents, grandparents, and great grandparents
knew.
Rarely does anything attain the century mark. We intend to mark this milestone, 2008, with
events to remember. We will have commemorative items made to sell and give to visitors.
We plan monthly birthday cakes. We hope you can come visit us and share our experience.
See you in Harrisville, West Virginia!
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