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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.
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 ...
Oct 18, 2008 · Mervyns, the 59-year-old department store chain based in Hayward, is closing up shop. The ailing retailer, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July and planned to close 26 stores...
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...
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...
Oct 7, 2020 · Big Brands. Small Prices. That was the catchy slogan of Mervyn’s. The chain essentially pioneered the branded apparel discounting concept and grew rapidly on the West Coast. But it seems that...
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 ...
Oct 20, 2008 · Key moments in the long history of Mervyns. 1949: Mervin Morris opens the first Mervyns, a 2,800-square-foot store in San Lorenzo, Calif., 20 miles south of Oakland, on July 29. First-day sales...
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.
