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Shoppers World
Company typePrivate
IndustryRetail
Founded1972; 53 years ago (1972)
HeadquartersNew York City, U.S.
Number of locations36 (March 2018)
Area servedConnecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia
Key peopleSam Dushey Sr., Founder
Sam Dushey, CEO
ProductsClothing, footwear, bedding, jewelry, beauty products, housewares, electronics, movies, toys, and furniture
RevenueUS$ 250 million (2015)
OwnerSW Group, LLC
Websiteshoppersworldusa.com

Shoppers World is a retail chain of discount department stores headquartered in New York. It has approximately 40 locations, mostly in the eastern United States. It is operated by the SW Group, controlled by the Dushey family.

History

Shoppers World traces its founding to the 1930s, when Sam Dushey Sr. founded "The Mart" in Baltimore, Maryland. In the 1950s, Dushey opened the Pitkin Bargain Center on Pitkin Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. Dushey opened the first Shoppers World store in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1972.

In 2015, CEO Sam Dushey went undercover in Shoppers World stores for an episode of the TV show Undercover Boss.

References

  1. "Shoppers World plans 2nd area store". Toledo Blade. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
  2. "About Us". Shoppers World. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
  3. Mudd, Jason. "What this CEO learned by going on 'Undercover Boss'". New York Business Journal. Retrieved March 16, 2018.

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