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Mervyn's was an American middle-scale department store chain based in Hayward, California, and founded by Mervin G. Morris (1920–2021). It carried national brands of clothing, footwear, bedding, bath products, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics, toys, and housewares.
Sep 3, 2021 · The store was California's top discount clothing retailer, known for selling factory seconds that failed quality inspection checks. It first opened in 1949 in San Lorenzo, a working class community near Oakland, and grew across the Bay Area — and soon the entire West Coast.
Apr 14, 2021 · My local Mervyn’s was the Willowbrook Mall area store that was not actually at the mall like so many other Houston Mervyn’s locations and it was also only one-story. The location is now a Rooms To Go furniture store in the Fiesta shopping center.
Reviews on Mervyns in Houston, TX - Greenspoint Mall, Mervyn's California Department Stores, Deerbrook Mall, Kohl's, The Woodlands Mall.
Jan 23, 2024 · Mervyn’s, a middle-scale department store chain founded by Mervin G. Morris in Hayward, California, offered a wide range of products, including clothing, footwear, furniture, electronics, and more. By 2005, it ranked as the 83rd largest U.S. retailer.
Sep 8, 2005 · Mervyns is closing all of its Houston-area stores and eliminating more than 600 jobs, as the retail chain pares nearly one-quarter of its stores to focus on profitable locations elsewhere.
Mar 26, 2021 · A sign in 1980 touting the then-upcoming Mervyn’s store that would be a part of Solano Mall described it as “a unique family department store.”
Oct 18, 2008 · After 59 years in business, the Mervyns department-store chain called it quits Friday -- promising a huge going-out-of-business sale just in time for the holidays.
Mervyn's was a chain of department stores in the United States, founded in 1949 in San Lorenzo, California. The chain had 45 locations in California and Nevada when it was acquired by the Dayton Hudson Corporation, also the owners of Target, in 1978.
Mervyn's is a middle-market promotional department store offering moderately priced name-brand and private label casual apparel and home fashions. Company Origins. Mervyn's was founded in 1949 in San Lorenzo, California by Mervin Morris, who took the advice of an architect who told him that exchanging the 'i' in his first name for a 'y' would ...
