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Tory Burch LLC
Tory Burch LLC is an American accessible-luxury lifestyle brand founded by designer Tory Burch in New York in 2004, selling handbags, shoes, and ready-to-wear through roughly 400 stores worldwide.
Toys "R" Us
Toys "R" Us, also known as Children's Supermart, is an American toy-store chain founded by Charles Lazarus that went bankrupt in 2017 and now operates as a licensing brand.
Tractor Supply Company
Tractor Supply Company, also known as Tractor Supply Co., is the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States, selling feed, pet food, and farm equipment.
United Supermarkets
United Supermarkets, today doing business as The United Family, is a Lubbock, Texas grocery chain founded in 1916 in Oklahoma and acquired by Albertsons in 2013 for about $385 million.
Urban Outfitters
Urban Outfitters, Inc. is an American apparel and lifestyle retailer whose portfolio includes the Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People brands plus the Nuuly clothing-rental subscription.
Variety store
A variety store, historically the five-and-dime, sells low-priced general merchandise on a cash-and-carry basis; pioneered by F.W. Woolworth in 1879, it survives in dollar stores.
Video rental shop
A video rental shop, also known as a video store, is a specialty retailer that rents movies and video games for a fee, peaking around 2000 before streaming.
Visual merchandising
Visual merchandising is the retail practice of maximizing sales per square meter by controlling how product meets the customer, using window displays, fixtures, planograms, and store layouts.
W. T. Grant
W. T. Grant was an American variety-store chain founded by William T. Grant in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1906, which collapsed in the largest American retailing bankruptcy of its time in 1975.
Wall Drug
Wall Drug, also known as Wall Drug Store, is a drugstore-turned-roadside attraction in Wall, South Dakota, founded in 1931 and famous for free ice water, 5-cent coffee, and hand-painted billboards.
Walmart
Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation running discount stores, supercenters, and Sam's Club, with about 2.1 million employees and roughly 20% of all US grocery sales.
Wanamaker's
Wanamaker's, also known as John Wanamaker's, was a Philadelphia department store chain founded by John Wanamaker in 1861, known for its Grand Court, bronze eagle, and the Wanamaker Organ.
Warby Parker
Warby Parker is an American vertically integrated eyewear retailer founded in 2010 by four Wharton classmates, selling glasses starting at $95 online and in stores.
Watsons (屈臣氏)
Watsons (屈臣氏) is the Hong Kong-based health and beauty retail chain of AS Watson Group, dating to 1841, with over 17,000 stores across 31 markets.
Western Auto
Western Auto was an American auto parts retailer founded in Kansas City in 1909 by George Pepperdine, sold to Sears in 1988 and merged with Advance in 1998.
Western International Group
Western International Group is a Dubai-headquartered, Bahrain-founded diversified business group operating the Nesto hypermarket chain and Mark & Save superstores across the GCC and India.
Westfield Group
Westfield Group, also known as Westfield Shoppingtowns or Westfield Holdings, was an Australian shopping-center company founded by Frank Lowy and John Saunders in 1959, split in 2014 and sold in 2018.
WHP Global
WHP Global is a New York-based brand management firm, founded in 2019 by Yehuda Shmidman, that owns the IP of 16+ consumer brands and licenses them to operating partners.
Williams-Sonoma
Williams-Sonoma is an American specialty retailer of home products, founded by Chuck Williams as a Sonoma cookware shop in 1956 and headquartered in San Francisco.
WinCo Foods
WinCo Foods, formerly Waremart, is an employee-owned, no-frills supermarket chain founded in Boise, Idaho, in 1967, with 140+ stores in ten states and one of the largest employee stock ownership plans in the United States.
Yo-Chi
Yo-Chi is an Australian self-serve frozen yogurt chain founded in Melbourne in 2012, where customers fill a cup from flavor taps and pay by weight, with 80 Australian stores plus locations in Singapore, London, and Dallas.
Younkers
Younkers was a Midwestern department store chain founded as a dry-goods store in Keokuk, Iowa, in 1856 and long based in Des Moines; its last 49 stores closed in 2018.
Zadig&Voltaire
Zadig&Voltaire is a Paris-based French fashion brand founded in 1997 by Thierry Gillier, an accessible luxury label known for reinvented cashmere knitwear, distressed leather, and studded accessories, with about 350 points of sale worldwide.
Zellers
Zellers is a Canadian discount department store chain founded by Walter P. Zeller in 1928, owned by Hudson's Bay Company, which bought it in 1978.
Zus Coffee
Zus Coffee, also known as Zuspresso, is a Malaysian value-priced coffee chain founded in late 2019 that has grown from one Kuala Lumpur kiosk to over 700 stores.