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I remember there used to be “five and dime” nostalgia around our downtown Woolworth, which was like a\ufffc Dollar Tree except with a counter to get soft pretzels like KMart had

like part of the “lunch counter” stuff is it was a lunch counter\ufffc, these stores existed in the middle of towns where clerks worked

Woolworth’s lunch counters immediately make me think of black nonviolent civil disobedience political activism to desegregate them during the civil rights movement.

Probably because that’s the only context I’ve encountered Woolworth’s in. I’ve never seen one IRL, I’m not sure if they ever existed in my part of the country, and they apparently went out of business in 1997. Also part of the Woolworth’s corporate entity apparently became Foot Locker, the athletic shoe store.

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Oh yeah, I remember Woolworth and one other chain being in competition for laying the format to rest and as small towns came back in the later 90s that became a Gap/Baby Gap

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