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unusual facts about big box



Monroe Township, Snyder County, Pennsylvania

Nearly every major "Big Box" retail format (e.g. home improvement, general merchandise, grocery, department store, and consumer electronics) has a presence in the township.

Stonebridge, Saskatoon

At present, the major commercial district of Stonebridge is the Stonegate Shopping Centre, a big box commercial development in the northwest corner that includes Walmart.


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Adventure Electronics

With the demise of Adventure Electronics in 1998, this left Future Shop as its only big-box consumer electronics retailer until Best Buy acquired Future Shop in 2001, leading for Best Buy to open locations in Canada for 2002.

G. E. M. Membership Department Stores

Following the G.E.M. discount model, Koffler later opened one of the first "big box" store chains, Shoppers Drug Mart.

Gainesville, Virginia

The intersection of I-66 and Lee Highway (29 Highway) boasts the largest shopping center with big box stores, such as Target Supercenter, Lowe's, Best Buy, DSW, Walgreens, and many other stores and restaurants.

Great Lakes Life Magazine

In its first two years, Erie Life Magazine saw an unprecedented growth, increasing distribution from only 25 small, independent retail locations to over 640 big box retail points in four states and southern Ontario including Barnes & Noble, Borders, Wegmans Food Markets, Walmart, Walgreens, Country Fair, Giant Eagle Grocery Stores, Chapters, and Indigo Books and Music.

Hostway

Private Label – Hostway works with telcos, MSOs and big box retail companies to resell their services through a white label wholesale model.

Play DJ

Greg Scott - Current Playmonday and Big Box Bingo presenter and former presenter of Quizmania, price-drop tv, and iBuy

South Hills Mall

In the 1990s, South Hills was sold to Sarakreek Holdings NV, a Dutch property holding firm which attempted to revive the mall by opening "big-box" retailers like Media Play, Old Navy, Office Max, Discovery Zone, and Bob's Stores.

Spawn of the North

The film was a big box office success and was later remade as Alaska Seas (1954).

Sylva, North Carolina

It has several big box stores and supermarkets, notably Walmart, Lowe's, and an Ingles supermarket.

The Hour Before the Dawn

She was at her peak at the time of production, with films such as Sullivan's Travels, This Gun for Hire, The Glass Key, I Married a Witch and So Proudly We Hail! all having been big box office successes for her and Paramount.

Urban Enterprise Zone

These incentives have led to the construction of numerous malls and big-box retailers in parts of the development zone located near major highways, such as the Elizabeth Center and Jersey Gardens Outlet Center in the largely industrial city of Elizabeth along the New Jersey Turnpike.

West Royalty, Prince Edward Island

Further big box store development in the 1990s and 2000s initially spurred by the establishment of the province's first big box store (a Sobeys supermarket) in the vicinity of the mall has seen stores such as Canadian Tire, Future Shop, and Walmart Canada locate in the area.