Discount & Variety Retail Industry Competitors

Thrifty Floridians look to 99 Cent Stuff for bargains under a buck. The company has about five stores in South Florida, selling items ranging from baby products and clothing to hardware and toys. Everything in the store is 99 cents or less. 99 Cent Stuff buys closeouts from manufacturers, wholesalers, and others, and emphasizes name-brand items from companies such as General Mills, Mattel, Procter & Gamble, The Hershey Company, and Revlon....

AEON Stores (Hong Kong) Co. focuses on providing places to shop and eat in Asia. A member of AEON CO., the retailer has about a half dozen GMS, 15 independent JUSCO $10 Plaza, several independent JUSCO supermarkets, and two Bento Express locations (launched in 2007) throughout Hong Kong....

Aurora Wholesalers (dba The Mazel Company) buys a broad range of name-brand close-out consumer products from more than 700 global suppliers and sells the items at below-wholesale prices. It also offers such proprietary goods as candles, party goods, tableware, batteries, and light bulbs, which account for about 30% of its sales....

Looking to liquidate some beloved family heirlooms into a handful of quick, cold, hard cash? Looking to buy the family heirloom of someone who had trouble making rent or some other necessary payment? Cash Converters International makes cash advances in return for used merchandise, including electronics, jewelry, musical instruments, tools, and more, which it resells to the public....

When you say retro at Cumberland General Store, you're really talking the 80s -- the 1880s, to be more precise. Cumberland General Store markets items that would be appropriate for a rural home or farm in the 19th century. The company sells appliances, hardware, toys, kitchen supplies, and other products (that typically require little or no electricity) from a single store in Alpharetta, Georgia, as well as through its well known catalog and online....

Corn is still king in America's heartland and Farm King Supply's business is to make sure it keeps its throne. The company sells animal health products, apparel, electronics, farm supplies, hardware, toys, and more to the agricultural community from five stores in West Central Illinois and a single location in Eastern Iowa....

Gabriel, blow your horn! Your magical, mystical discount horn, that is. Gabriel Brothers sells discounted brand-name clothing through about 100 stores, under the Gabriel Brothers and Rugged Wearhouse banners. Stores are located in more than a dozen East Coast and Mid-Atlantic states....

With a new name, new headquarters, new production facility, and new success, good times are surely in store for ...instore. Formerly named Brown & Jackson, the company operates about 300 discount stores in the UK. Subsidiary Poundstretcher (also known as £Stretcher) owns and operates stores that market housewares and stationery, as well as family clothing and accessories, all at discount prices....

Kole Imports keeps America's dollar stores well stocked with trinkets and treasures. The firm wholesales everything from automobile accessories to zippers, which is attractively packaged by in-house artists to ensure a similar look for all of the merchandise....

Old Time Pottery operates a chain of more than 35 stores in about a dozen states in the South and Midwest that sell discounted closeout and overstock housewares, silk flowers, framed art, linens, rugs, craft supplies, seasonal merchandise, and more. The company gets its inventory, which it displays in a warehouse-type setting, from the canceled orders and excess stock of manufacturers....

Poundland wants its customers to care as much as it does about the value of British Sterling. Founded in 1990 Poundland is the UK's leading single-price retailer (everything in the stores costs £1) with more than 150 storefronts throughout the country. Its typical 3,000 products offered range from drinks to household goods, with more large-size manufacturers coming on board each year....

Founded in 1969, Primark (which does business as Penneys in Ireland) operates about 175 discount department stores throughout Ireland, the UK, and now Spain. The company targets the under-35-year-old, fashion-conscious market and features departments including womenswear, lingerie, childrenswear, menswear, footwear, accessories, and household textiles....

Being thrifty is not just a nifty virtue that was advocated by Ben Franklin. Savers depends on thrifty people to make its business a financial success. The resale giant is the world's largest for-profit thrift store chain. It operates more than 210 Savers, Value Village, and Village des Valeurs stores in about two dozen US states, 10 Canadian provinces, and in Melbourne, Australia....

Simply Amazing (which does business as Amazing Savings) operates about a dozen closeout retail stores in New York and New Jersey. The company offers overstocked and discontinued goods (such as apparel, housewares, and appliances) purchased in bulk from manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers....

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Discount retailer T J Morris offers its customers top brands-- of nearly everything-- at bottom-basement prices to value-seeking shoppers in England and Wales. The company operates more than 100 Home Bargains and "halfpriceorless.com" outlets that sell discounted personal care and household products, such as health and beauty items, toys, and designer products....

You don't have to visit the Green Mountain State to shop at The Vermont Country Store. In addition to its locations in Weston and Rockingham, Vermont the company sells a little bit of everything, from soap to sleepwear, from its Web site or catalog. Products offered by The Vermont Country Store include apparel, cosmetics and skin care products, bed and table linens, sleepwear, swimwear, footwear, and food and classic candies....

TJ Hughes wants its customers to be proud of their penny-pinching. The company is a discount chain with about 50 discount clothing stores extending throughout the UK, as well as a retail Web site. Target customers are generally women in their 40's. In 2003 a management team, led by former chief executive George Foster and backed by Prudential's private equity arm PPM Ventures, bought TJ Hughes back from the UK's largest sporting goods chain, JJB Sports (which acquired it in 2002)....

Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores made its blanket coverage of North America complete with the 1994 acquisition of the 122-store Woolco division of Woolworth Canada. Like Wal-Mart de México, its sister-company south of the US-Mexico border, Wal-Mart Canada has since grown into a major retail force in its home country, with about 270 discount stores and 30 supercenters nationwide....

Zellers has always been rather zealous when it comes to discounts. Started in 1931 by Walter P. Zeller, the company is a national discount department store chain with about 300 stores across Canada. Zellers stores carry a variety of items, from apparel to groceries and furniture....