Boscov's Inc is a family-owned department store with forty-nine locations in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
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11 Facts About Boscov's
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Boscov's chairman is Jim Boscov, who took over after his uncle Albert Boscov retired.
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Boscov's worked as a traveling salesman with an initial $8 worth of merchandise.
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Boscov's fortunes changed in 1914 when he opened the first Boscov's store at 9th and Pike streets in Reading.
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Boscov's opened its first location outside of Pennsylvania at the Dover Mall in Dover, Delaware in August 1982.
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Boscov's first entered the Philadelphia market in the late 1980s by opening Ports of the World outlet stores.
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In 1983, Boscov's leased the Fowler's department store building and opened the next year in downtown Binghamton, New York.
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Boscov's continuing success makes it regarded as an "outlier" in a retail market where many department store chains are failing and closing stores.
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Boscov's announced plans to move into Rhode Island's Providence Place mall in 2019, following the departure of Nordstrom, which terminated the lease on the space.
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When Gimbels went out of business in 1986, WPVI-TV and Boscov's took over the sponsorship of the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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