Source: Good News Network
140 years ago today, Frank Woolworth opened the first of many 5-and-10-cent stores in Utica, New York. His F. W. Woolworth Company was arguably the most successful American–and international—five-and-dime business, setting trends and creating the modern retail model, still followed worldwide today.
Retail chains using the Woolworth name survive in Austria, Germany, Mexico and, until early 2009, the UK—with a copycat in Australia. (1878)
MORE Good News on this Date:
- George Washington, the first U.S. president and influential Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, was born in Virginia (1732)
- Tennessee adopted a new constitution that abolished slavery (1865)
- Elvis Presley premiered on the music charts with “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956)
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