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2 unusual facts about The Store


Setia Indah

Setia Indah is also located in the vicinity of many of the best shopping centres / hypermarkets in Johor Bahru, namely Carrefour, SMart, Giant Hypermarket, ÆON Tebrau City Shopping Centre, The Store and Tesco.

Skudai

The shopping centres that are in and within Skudai are Skudai Parade, AEON Taman Universiti, KIP Mart, Skudai Mall, The Store in Taman Ungku Tun Aminah, Sutera Mall in Taman Sutera Utama, U Mall in Taman Pulai Utama, Bestmart in Taman Nusa Bestari, Giant Hypermarket which along the Jalan Skudai.



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Atkinsons

The store has been trading for over 130 years and sells a broad range of merchandise including clothing, furnishings, lighting, gifts, jewellery, toys, cookers and televisions.

Barefoot Contessa

The store, which is no longer in operation, opened in 1975 and was named after the 1954 film of the same name.

Bergner's

Maus Frères SA, based in Geneva, Switzerland, acquired the company at that point and gave the store its unique red logo of six hexagons, an emblem Bergner's now shares with five corporate siblings as well as two current Maus subsidiaries.

Borden's Ice Cream

In May 2009 the Foundation sold the store to Lafayette Red's health club owner Red Lerille, who bought the property with the intention of keeping the local icon alive in Lafayette.

Branch Brook Park

The famous cherry trees were the result of a 1927 gift from Caroline Bamberger Fuld, sister of department store magnate Louis Bamberger and widow of the store's vice president.

Chuck Versus the Marlin

Morgan reveals that the night before the store was cleaned out, he grabbed Chuck's bag from his locker and went back to Chuck's apartment to play an advanced copy of the next Call of Duty game that Chuck had refused to let him play unless Morgan was under "adult supervision."

Clifford Grodd

He led the way in establishing Paul Stuart's own brands and the store attracted the loyalty of individuals including Fred Astaire, Mel Brooks, Cary Grant, Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra.

Computer Literacy Bookshops

The store not only sold books and periodicals but displayed galley pre-prints for skimming and editing, held author and guest engineer speaking events such as Gene Amdahl or Donald Knuth.

Currys Digital

Peter Mandelson said he was worried that consumers were getting a 'raw deal' because of the store's dominant position in the market.

Czech Stop and Little Czech Bakery

The store serves around 600 people a day and is a popular stop for travelers along Interstate 35.

Daiso

Most items sold in the store (Daiso products plus a small selection of Japanese foods and beverages) are CAD$2 each.

Doris Payne

On Friday, January 22, 2010, Payne was arrested in Costa Mesa, California for removing the tags from a $1,300 Burberry trench coat from a Saks Fifth Avenue store and subsequently leaving the store with the coat.

Enterprise Mercantile and Milling Company Building

The store failed in 1925 and ownership was taken by Wallowa County in the 1930s; the county then renovated it to provide housing.

Farra Design Center

From the side road on the Mkalles (Beirut) highway, the store gives the impression of being a small boutique while it is actually a large retail store with 7 levels of showroom.

Franklins

The Gosford store featured a unique mini branch of the Commonwealth Bank within the store, as well as a small hairdressing kiosk.

Freeway Phantom

On her way home from the store, Carol was abducted; her body was found six days later on a grassy embankment next to the northbound lanes of I-295, about 1,500 feet south of Suitland Parkway.

Galeries Lafayette

In 2008, the store announced a licensing agreement to open a store in Morocco Mall in 2010.

Golds World of Judaica

The store currently sells much Jewish literature, including the Siddur, Tanakh, Mishnah, Talmud, Halakhic works, as well as works of Jewish philosophy, Hasidut and Kabbalah, both in the original Hebrew version and with English translation, as well as many Jewish-themed non-fiction and fiction books.

Henry the Hatter

Celebrities Run DMC, LL Cool J, Kid Rock, and Steve Harvey are all store regulars, and Kid Rock featured the store in his video for "Roll On".

Honest Ed's

For example, Honest Ed's was featured in the film The Long Kiss Goodnight and can be seen in several background scenes in the film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World when Scott and his friends are dining at Pizza Pizza across the street from the store.

From February to March 2009, the store hosted "Honest Threads", an interactive artwork by installation artist Iris Häussler, curated by Mona Filip of the Koffler Centre of the Arts.

Human Switchboard

They decided to close the store and move from Kent back to Cleveland, where they obtained an apartment in Coventry (an area made famous by Harvey Pekar).

Internationalist Books

The store name is a reference to the political philosophy of internationalism.

Israel's Department Store

Following the takeover of the store, Wilfrid Israel, who had run the business with his brother, emigrated to England, where he took up a research position at Balliol College, Oxford.

Jabłkowski Brothers

After the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, the store at Bracka street became one of the arsenals for the Armia Krajowa.

John Merritt Sammis

As a concession, plate glass windows from the store were removed and used as windows in Snouder's Drug Store a few buildings to the south.

Joseph Swan

The premises are now owned by the Swedish fashion retailer H&M and can be identified by a line of Victorian-style electric street lamps in front of the store on Grey Street.

Joske's

The store was expanded and renovated again in 1939, sporting a new Art Deco facade as well as the first escalators installed in a Texas store.

Just the Way I'm Feeling

This saw the store being closed to the general public and was repeated two years later when the band appeared at the same store on Oxford Street for a signing-only event for their 5th studio album Pushing the Senses, when the store was closed yet again.

Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

They're lured to the local Waffle House by a phone call from their friend Keun, who tells them that a group of cheerleaders has entered the store and are practicing their routines, as well as requesting to play Twister.

Louisiana Music Factory

The store suffered little damage by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and was one of the first record stores to reopen after the storm.

Moose Lake, Manitoba

Later, his son Tom Lamb (who later started Lamb Air) took over the store and operated it with his children for years.

Odell School, North Carolina

It was long recognized as a community gathering place, and as automobiles began to be owned by community residents, the store became a dealer of Standard Oil, Esso and finally Exxon gasoline and petroleum products.

Old Bella Bella, British Columbia

When the store at McLoughlin Bay closed, the postal service, along with the name "Bella Bella" was transferred, first to a cannery, then to Shearwater, British Columbia.

Pink Gorilla

Toho, owner of the Godzilla franchise, claimed the store was infringing upon its trademark.

Quick Hit Football

CP and QC can both be used to purchase new plays from the store, including contributions from ex-NFL head coaches Dan Reeves, Marty Schottenheimer, and Dick Vermeil.

Ravena, New York

Best Yet Supermarket left in late 2005 and the store was remodeled and opened again in the spring of 2006 as Ravena Shop 'n Save (supplied by Hannaford).

Sanger-Harris

:• Pam decides she wants to work outside the home, visits "the store" for a job interview with friend Liz Craig (Barbara Babcock); the downtown Dallas store facade can clearly be seen as Pam approaches the front door of the store.

Satriale's Pork Store

Silvio Dante and Paulie Gualtieri beat Ariel, the brother-in-law of Hillel Teittelbaum in a room in the upper floor of the store and debate whether to murder him with Tony

Spatula

The "Weird Al" Yankovic comedy film UHF features an ad for a fictional outlet store called Spatula City that sells nothing but spatulas (most are of the "turner" variety, though examples of the "scraper" variety are visible in both the Graduation and Birthdays sections of the store in the ad).

Stephen Anthony Mobley

Mobley robbed the store and shot Collins in the back of the head with a Walther .38-caliber semiautomatic pistol that he had stolen previously.

The Blum Store

The store was comparable in quality, style, and reputation to larger chains Bonwit Teller and Lord & Taylor and was one of the premier chains headquartered in Philadelphia, selling women's clothing and accessories and children's clothing.

The People's Supermarket

Based upon the concept of the food co-operative and inspired in part by the Park Slope Food Coop in the Park Slope neighbourhood of Brooklyn in New York City, US, members of the social enterprise are required to pay a £25 annual fee and contribute 4 hours of their time every 4 weeks to working in the store.

Vintage Vinyl

The most noteworthy example of this is when former Evanston resident John Cusack chose the store as the original filming location for the movie High Fidelity.

While it's not uncommon to spot musicians such as Billy Corgan in the building, most of the noteworthy rock stars who frequented the store did so in the 1980s and 1990s.

Wendell Gilliard

The store closed due to declining sales, and in 1981, Gilliard began to work as a plant operator for Mobil Chemical.