Zody's
Department store | |
Industry | Retail |
Fate | Bankruptcy; sold to Ralphs |
Founded | 1960, Los Angeles, California |
Defunct | 1986 |
Headquarters | Arizona, California, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico |
Key people
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Samuel S. Wurtzel, Alan Wurtzel (founders) |
Products | Clothing, foodwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics and housewares. |
Zodys was a chain of discount retail stores that operated in the United States from 1960 to 1986. The chain operated locations in California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Michigan.
The first store in this Southern California–based discount chain opened June 13, 1960, in Garden Grove, California. By 1969, there were 19 stores. In 1972, the Hartfield-Zodys parent company acquired the Yankee Stores chain of Flint, Michigan, briefly re-branding the stores as Yankee-Zodys, and later as Zodys.[1] The Michigan stores were unprofitable, and were sold in 1974 when Hartfield-Zodys filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.[1] A brief period of prosperity brought expansions into Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. In 1979 there were 37 stores.
Bankrupt again by the early 1980s, the parent company, now known as HRT Industries, began closing stores in 1984. The remaining Zodys stores in California were shuttered in March 1986,[2][3] with many locations being sold to Federated Stores, the parent company of Ralphs, a supermarket chain.[4][5][6]
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External links
- Articles with dead external links from June 2013
- Articles with dead external links from December 2015
- Companies based in Los Angeles, California
- Retail companies disestablished in 1986
- Defunct companies based in California
- Defunct discount stores of the United States
- Retail companies established in 1960
- 1960 establishments in California
- Defunct department stores of the United States