Name store Brands that originated in one area but became big elsewhere

Started by bing101, August 02, 2014, 10:29:37 PM

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bing101

http://dornsife.usc.edu/la-walking-tour/robinsons-department-store/


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinsons-May

Here are the Los Angeles Version

I noticed that the Robinsons Department store Brand was once big in the Los Angeles Basin but somehow this Robinsons name was later used in the Philippines.

http://www.robinsonsdepartmentstore.com.ph/

Here is the Philippine version of Robinsons
http://www.robinsonsdepartmentstore.com.ph/store-locator
and Locations

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Some have also Mentioned Longs Drugs was once a Northern California name for Pharmacy Stores but was renamed CVS sometime between 2006-2008.
However CVS Kept the Longs Drugs name in Hawaii.



Arkansastravelguy

Where I live there's this chain that's started up here and became a little successful in a few other places. This little store in Bentonville named Walmart. 

FightingIrish

When I was just a young boy living in the Twin Cities area,  in the mid-80s, I used to frequent a local record store chain called Sound Of Music. It was in a timy building at the intersection of US 12 and County 61 in Minnetonka. One day, the Minnetonka location announced their closing, as the new I-394 was planned to run right through it. But they were going to relocate down the street to an abandoned Best catalog showroom (remember them?). With it came a name change. From that point on, they would be known as Best Buy Superstore. The rest, as they say, is history.

FightingIrish

Quote from: bing101 on August 02, 2014, 10:29:37 PM

Some have also Mentioned Longs Drugs was once a Northern California name for Pharmacy Stores but was renamed CVS sometime between 2006-2008.
However CVS Kept the Longs Drugs name in Hawaii.

I also lived in California when I was even younger. Longs used to have an ice cream stand where they sold cones at 10¢ a scoop!