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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 Real Reason Mervyn's Disappeared. If you're old enough to remember the 1970s and 1980s, you might know of Mervyn's. The store was California's top discount clothing retailer, known for selling factory seconds that failed quality inspection checks.
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 add flair to the department store that he named after himself.
Aug 30, 2021 · Mervin Morris, who died last week at the age of 101, achieved two remarkable accomplishments – among many others, to be sure – in his lifetime, one historic and one a historic footnote. He ...
Jan 5, 2009 · Mervyn’s is neither the first California retail chain to be born, nor the first to die. The story of California business is an entrepreneurial one: we have attracted risk-takers from the rest...
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.
Mar 2, 2009 · Mervyn's, which at its peak had spread from the Bay Area across the country and totaled 300 stores in 16 states, was the kind of retailer more likely to be found in a strip mall than a galleria...
Oct 18, 2008 · A tightening economy has led another retailer in bankruptcy to shut down its operations. Mervyns, the California-based department store that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July ...
Mervyn's was an American middle-scale department store chain. It was based in Hayward, California. It was founded in 1949. . On October 17, 2008, the company announced that it would liquidate its assets through a Chapter 7 filing.
Nov 26, 2008 · Mervyns, the chain that Morris founded six decades ago with $25,000 and two employees, is about to disappear. Its 149 remaining stores are being liquidated. More than 18,000 people have been ...
