Still in business in the southeast, not sure for how much longer though. The quality of their merchandise has taken a hit over the years. They are only a step or two above a dollar store these days.
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First time I ever heard of them
Roses is now part of North Carolina-based Variety Wholesalers. They operate a stable of variety/dollar stores under the Super 10, Super Dollar, Bargain Town, Maxway, Bill's Dollar Store, and Roses. The Roses stores are generally larger, and they are merchandised and operated somewhat differently from the other smaller formats. At least the company has kept several formerly independent banners alive. Back in the day, Roses were similar to small Kmart stores, even had luncheonettes.
the one in hamburg / blasdell / buffalo ny near mckinnely mall
Here's a picture of the Roses' Department store that was located in the Wise County plaza. Now part of it is Sears and other part is Peeble's. Sear's is in the part where the main enterance of the store was located.
Rose's Department Store opened in Wise, Virginia in 1982 and was opened until about 1994. It was anchored a pretty big shopping center called Wise County Shopping Plaza with a Food Lion and Rite Aid on the other side. The store had a snack bar, and some of the best Hotdogs. We loved the store an the store got a lot of business even after the Kmart open in 1989 right across the street from it Rose's still did really good. The prices was good, they sold name brands. Everybody was really shocked when we found out that the Wise Location would closed in July of 1994, after Rose's had went backrupt. Everybody was sad to see it come to an end. The building didn't stay empty long maybe two years and Watson's went in to half of it, they made thier enterance where the Lawn and Garden center was located. Then Sear took the other half where the main enternace and the Rose's sign use to hang. Then Peeble's came along and bought out all the Watson's. We still misss the Rose's and have a lot of good memories about it. It being the first big box department store opening up in Wise, Virginia.
This Rose's is in Galax Virginia. Located beside of Kroger's.
Photo from Loopnet.com
Rose's Discount stores sponsored the #6 Buick drove by Tommy Houston in the Bush Series, The car colors was blue and white. A really nice looking paint scheme. Yeah this was back in the hay days of their business. Seem like it may have been the late 80's and early 90's
Can anybody tell me where this Rose's is located.
Rose's still open in Albany Georgia. In the Oglethorpe Plaza
Here is a former Rose Store in Gloucester Virginia, in the Hayes Shopping Center on Highway 17. Now a Boys and Girls club. The Rose's open in the 1980's and closed in 1994.
A Rose's still opened in Newport News,Virginia. in The Plaza at Newmarket shopping center. a nice looking one to. I wished Roses's would have continue on like they were in the late 1980's. they were really a good department store.
Washington Square shopping center
Here is a picture of Rose Garden Center. They had a really good garden center. About as good as Lowe's now. this one is in Grafton Virginia.
The first (and only one) that I've ever seen is in Ocean City, MD. The first time we visited (in 1998), it was very nice, but move forward to 2002 and it looked like the cheesiest bargain store you'd ever want to see. It was so sad to see tourists piling all kinds of crap in their basket just because it was cheep!
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Could you get a picture for me.
Rose's store to close by May February 7, 2002
Variety Wholesalers Inc. on Wednesday said it will close its Rose's discount store in Columbia Square shopping center by May.
But the Raleigh, N.C.-based retailer said the store's three-dozen employees would be offered jobs at the new Maxway store it plans to open this spring in south Augusta.
"Rose's has been in the Augusta market for a long time, and we expect to have stores in the Augusta market for a long time going forward," said Wilson Sawyer, Variety Wholesaler's senior vice president of stores and merchandise.
Variety Wholesalers' existing Maxway store is located in Southgate shopping center on Gordon Highway. The second store would be located near Bobby Jones Expressway in south Augusta, said Mr. Sawyer, declining to give specifics because the real estate is under negotiation.
"It's close," he said. "We think it's a done deal."
Mr. Sawyer said the Rose's store will begin liquidating merchandise Feb. 15. The Rose's store in Aiken will remain open.
Rose's exit from the Columbia Square shopping center in Columbia County had been anticipated since November, when Augusta car dealer Andy Jones purchased the 16-acre property with plans to convert it into an auto mall.
Mr. Jones bought out the remainder of Rose's lease on the shopping center's 53,000-square-foot space, which the store has occupied since the center was built 28 years ago.
"If it were not for the circumstances of the shopping center, we would still be there," Mr. Sawyer said.
Park Hill Plaza
Here's a Rose's still in business. Looks like on of the nice ones. Rose's did always have clean stores on the outside.
A really nice Rose's in Greensboro North Carolina. Located at
Stonesthrow Crossing Shopping Center.
Customers excited about new Roses
Store opens Thursday in old Winn-Dixie
Thursday, July 31, 2008
When Roses department store closed its Elizabeth City location several years ago, Weeksville resident Anne Sawyer lost one of her favorite places to shop. That's why on Thursday Sawyer was among the many excited shoppers who attended the unadvertised grand opening of the new Roses, located in the former Winn-Dixie building off Halstead Boulevard.
"This used to be my store all the time," said Sawyer, pushing a shopping cart
Sawyer said she was pleased with the store's fresh, clean appearance, which included rows of clothing racks, housewares, garden supplies and electronics.
"I'm loving it," she said. "I'm so glad they're back."
Another early shopper was Clayton Harris, of Elizabeth City. Harris said he likes Roses because many of the store's items are being sold at low prices. As a bonus, Harris said the new Elizabeth City store will help him save even more money on what he spends on gas. That's because in the past he's been shopping at Roses stores in Edenton and Chesapeake, Va., but now he won't have to travel as far to do his shopping.
Pamela Brothers, another shopper, said she noticed that the store has more clothing than the old location Elizabeth City location had. She said Roses was a nice place to shop for her daughter's back-to-school clothes.
"They've got a lot of reasonable stuff in here," said Brothers, who lives in Elizabeth City.
Also on hand Thursday was Roses Senior Vice President Ken Ramsey, who said initially he wasn't sure what kind of customer response he'd receive on the store's first day of business. At 9:30 a.m. all the store's registers were busy and a steady stream of shoppers filled the aisles, he said.
"I was surprised for a quiet opening," said Ramsey, who added he heard from several customers who expressed how pleased they were with Roses' return.
One feature that Roses offers that other retail stores may not offer is a layaway program, which Ramsey said will begin after the Elizabeth City store's official grand opening scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 7.
Ramsey said while layaways require more labor, they are a real convenience to customers, especially in the current economy.
"It's tough to just go out and purchase things," Ramsey said.
In fact, Brothers said at one time Wal-Mart was her favorite store up until in the last couple of years the Wal-Mart in Elizabeth City discontinued its layaway program.
Before it closed in 1993, the former Roses of Elizabeth City was located where JCPenney is now in the Southgate Mall. In 1999, a Roses Express opened in the mall but closed after two years. When the first Elizabeth City Roses closed, the chain was in transition and was later acquired by Variety Wholesalers, which now operates Roses along with other chains, such as Super 10, Ramsey said.
Between the last "big" Roses store in town and this new Roses, the company switched from the typical department store to being more "value driven," he said.
Roses has 101 stores off the Atlantic coast and in the southeast, according to Ramsey. North Carolina now has about 44 Roses stores. Variety Wholesalers is based out of Henderson, N.C.
The new store, which has about 40 full- and part-time employees, was designed to provide shoppers a convenient, quick in-and-out shopping trip that larger box retail stores may not be able to accommodate, he said.
While there already are other discount stores in Elizabeth City, Ramsey said the market indicated that it could also support another retail store. The new Roses rounds out a plaza that also includes a Checkers fast-food restaurant, OfficeMax and Citi Trends clothing store.
Roses can be reached at 337-9779. The store, located near the intersection of Halstead Boulevard and Ehringhaus Street, is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays.
Rose's in Princeton West, Virginia.
A closer look of the Rose's in Princeton, West Virgina.
This Rose's has been here since the early 1980's. They sure could use some remolding on the inside of the store. The outside looks Ok but the inside could use some improvements.
A closer look of the sign of Rose's.
The Roses in Chestertown, MD is a former Ames, in a shopping center with a peaked 60s Acme.
Here's a former Rose's in the University Mall in Blacksburg, Va has now became Virginia Tech's Math Emporium. Read more about the Math Emporium at www.highereducation.org/crosstalk/ct0105/
A closer view of the main enterance of Rose's in Roxboro, Nc
Located in Kalmia Plaza on Richland Ave
Roses Stores (originally known as P.H. Rose) is a regional discount store centered out of Henderson, North Carolina. Once dominant in the mountainous regions and rural areas of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, the chain has dwindled due to the expansion of Wal-Mart in the region.
The Roses chain not only anchored strip centers, but also once anchored many enclosed shopping malls. Unable to adequately compete and falling under poor management, many stores closed, including those mall locations, and the stores never were updated to compete with Wal-Mart. Several stores are still operational.
Roses made several unsuccessful attempts to be acquired in the mid-1990s. At the retailer's peak, it operated approximately 278 stores mainly in North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia.
Roses was purchased by Variety Wholesalers Inc. in 1997[1]. The company has approximately 101 stores. It has scaled back its desire to operate as a discount store, focusing more on a high-end dollar concept.
Roses looked so cool and retro I hope somewhere thay are still doing buisness.
This Rose's is located in Jackson Mississippi at the Southgate Shopping Center. An article said the shopping center was built in 1974 and remolded in 1999, I'am not sure when Rose's opened up. It does look like some of the old Rose's built in the 1970's.
I was told this use to be a Rose's Dept. Store. I remember it was a Goody's for years, but I can't recall it being a Rose's of course it would been a few years ago. Back before my time. It does look like one of the older Rose's of the 1970's
This Rose's is located in a really nice building at the FOUR CORNER PLAZA at 25274 LANKFORD HWY.
This Rose's is located at Shipyard Plaza located at Carolina Beach Road and Shipyard Boulevard.
This Rose's is located at Morganton Plaza at Intersection of Fleming Drive (70 Bypass) and Highway 18
This Rose's is located in the Mid-Sussex Shopping Center . located near the intersection of Route 113 and Route 24. 20 minutes from Rehobeth Beach and adjacent to Georgetown.
This Rose's is located at 2268 North Church Street, Park Plaza Shopping Center. size of this store is 45,658 sq ft.
Photo from www.loopnet.com
This Rose's is located at Chowan Crossing Shopping Center 300J Virginia Road.
This Rose's is located at MOREHEAD PLAZA.
A really nice looking Rose's located at Mount Olive Shopping Center 1003 North Breazeale Avenue. Built in 1987
This Rose's is located at Centre Stage at Walkertown.
This Rose's is located at Mercury Plaza on Mercury Blvd.
I know this isn't a good picture but all I could find.
Photo taken from www.rutherfordchamber.org
Rose's Department store once had a 79,000-square store located in the Blue Hen Mall's. This was one of the stores Rose's closed down after failing for chapter 11 in 1993.
The building is now home to NationsBank
QuoteOriginally posted by wiseguy93
This Rose's is located in the Mid-Sussex Shopping Center . located near the intersection of Route 113 and Route 24. 20 minutes from Rehobeth Beach and adjacent to Georgetown.
Looks like a former Acme. Compare:
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QuoteOriginally posted by MBZ321
QuoteOriginally posted by wiseguy93
This Rose's is located in the Mid-Sussex Shopping Center . located near the intersection of Route 113 and Route 24. 20 minutes from Rehobeth Beach and adjacent to Georgetown.
Looks like a former Acme. Compare:
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Where is this Acme?
This Rose's is located in the Richlands Mall. This Rose's has an odd layout. I would have loved to have visited it in the hayday of Rose's back in the early 80's when it was first opened. I think it may have had a mall entarence from the inside but there's not much left of a mall now.
Another view of Rose's at Richlands Mall
Former Rose's soon to be home to aeronautics mechanical labs
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 by Teresa Dunham | in General News
Students who want to be airplane mechanics will be welding, sand-blasting and riveting in their own large facility by January.
Located in a donated section of The Plaza shopping center in Lynchburg, the future aeronautics mechanical labs will be housed in approximately 20,000 square feet of vacant space that was formerly a Roses department store.
"This is where they'll be training aircraft mechanics," said Charles Spence, LU's director of planning and new construction. "We're right now in the design phases, but very shortly it will go under construction."
The Morristown store was located in the Morristown Plaza next to JC Penney's from 1965 until 1988, then moved into JC Penney's space and occupied that from 1988 until 2003, when that portion of the plaza was torn down to make room for Home Depot.
Roses Stores #436 Morristown, TN Closing 2003
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The Rose's there closed as part of the Bankruptcy deal in 1994.
3/29/2008 11:29 PM, Anonymous said...
I can confirm the presence of Rose's in Florida. Both my mom and my aunt worked at the Roses's in Deland, Florida throughout the 70's and into the early 80's. I believe it closed in the early 90's. I concur with a previous post about the amazing record department that they had,not to mention pet, toy and sporting goods departments.They even had a cafeteria which served the best breakfast bisquits!!!! Anybody who thinks Walmart is a great retail store must not remember the great department stores of the 70's!
It opened around 1985 and stayed open till 1993 or 1994.
Asheville had three Rose's but all closed in 1994 due to bankrupt deal. One of those locations was at RANDOLPH MALL Dillard's now has that spot.
This Rose's was located on Monticello Ave, opened in 1983 and shut down in 2002. Peebles and Marshall's spilt the building. You can still see in this picture the old Garden Center.
This Rose's is located in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina located in the Windy Hill Shopping Center.
Photo from Loopnet.com
Here's the front view of the Rose's in Williamsburg, that was spilt and this half became Marshall's.
This former Rose's Department Store & Winn Dixie is now home to Phoenix High School. After a face lift it's hard to believe this was once a shopping Center.
QuoteOriginally posted by wiseguy93
This former Rose's Department Store & Winn Dixie is now home to Phoenix High School. After a face lift it's hard to believe this was once a shopping Center.
picture??
The former Rose's Department store located on Cherry Drive in the Cherry Valley Shopping Center in Lanett Al is now a Fred's. Not sure when the Rose was built or when the store was closed, could have been one of the so many that closed 1994 during the bankrupt deal.
picture from Loopnet.com
This Belk in Gainsville, Georgia at the Lake Shore Mall once was a Rose's Department Store. Closed during the bankrupt in 1994. Sorry for the picture will try to find a better one.
Picture taken from Laks Shore Mall homepage.
QuoteOriginally posted by wiseguy93
This Belk in Gainsville, Georgia at the Lake Shore Mall once was a Rose's Department Store. Closed during the bankrupt in 1994. Sorry for the picture will try to find a better one.
Picture taken from Laks Shore Mall homepage.
I live fairly close to this mall, I've been inside the Belk before. This mall is very small and all the anchor stores are only one level. Belk, has two stores in the mall, one for Men's, kids and, home and one for womens. Which one was the Roses?
I saw a Roses for the first time near the Myrtle Beach area quite some years ago, on vacation.
This Rose's is located at 6832 Market Street in the
Ogden Shopping Center
Picture taken from the City of Wilmington homepage.
This Rose's is located in Emporia Shopping Center in Emporia, Virginia. Not sure when the Rose's was built but shopping center was built in 1960. This is an older looking Rose's building not sure on the opening date of the store.
Roses will be demolished this week
Date published: 3/14/2009
BY CATHY JETT
The Roses Department Store building, which has anchored Park & Shop Shopping Center for nearly 27 years, soon will be no more.
The University of Mary Washington's private real-estate foundation began demolishing the 61,000-square-foot building last Monday to make way for student apartments, a parking garage and retail and office space. Two vacant stores next to it will go, too.
Parent company Variety Wholesalers Inc. eventually plans to open another store in this area, preferably in a strip shopping center similar to Park & Shop.
"We want to do everything we can to stay in the market," said Executive Vice President Ken Ramsey "It's been a very good market for us. We hated to leave."
UMW's foundation bought the 21-acre shopping center--which it has renamed Eagle Village--for $18.75 million in 2007. It estimates it will spend $115 million to build the first phase of its mixed-use project, which is expected to open in summer of 2010.
Park & Shop dates back to 1963, when it had its grand opening as Fredericksburg Park and Shop. It was the city's largest shopping center to date, and hostesses handed out orchids shipped in from Hawaii to the first 1,000 women who visited on opening day.
The shopping center's original 13 tenants included Giant Food, Kmart and Peoples Service Drug Store. It added more, including a Montgomery Ward, two years later. That store left in 1980 to anchor the newly opened Spotsylvania Mall, and Roses moved into its vacated 50,000-square-foot building on Aug. 5, 1981.
Thomas B. Banks, vice president of the Henderson, N.C.-based chain, described the company as an "upscale discounter" in an article that ran in The Free Lance-Star. It carried everything from clothing and automotive needs to housewares, sporting goods, furniture, records, stereos and TVs.
The new Fredericksburg store also had a garden center and snack bar.
At the time, there were more than 40 Roses department stores in Virginia. The closest were in Tappahannock and Charlottesville.
Roses remodeled and enlarged the Park & Shop store in 1987 as part of a company-wide effort to update older stores and reach new markets. The chain had just completed a 12-month period in which its stock price increased faster than that of any other Southeastern company. But its customer base was starting to contract as Wal-Mart, a major competitor, expanded with 53 new stores.
Roses began to lose money, closed more than 100 smaller stores and finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1994. The Park & Shop location, which was among the chain's larger stores, remained open.
Roses emerged from Chapter 11 in 1995 and narrowed its focus to target value-conscious, lower-income consumers.
Cathy Jett: 540/374-5407
Email: cjett@freelancestar.com
Here one last picture of the Fredericksburg Rose's before it's gone. Just the front remaining.
THE DAILY IBERIAN
Published/Last Modified on Friday, April 3, 2009 2:14 PM CDT
The first transaction at the Roses store in New Iberia was for $2.07 worth of chewing gum.
But to Gerald Maturin, the store's first paying customer, and other residents on the West End of the city, the store's operation here is priceless.
Maturin said his wife asked him to check out the new store Thursday morning when it opened for business
Roses will take advantage of 40,000 square feet of showroom and warehouse space and will offer "value-priced" merchandise, said Variety Wholesale's President and COO Wilson Sawyer, who was at the store Thursday. Variety Wholesale is the parent company of Roses, a chain of stores across the U.S.
More development could be on the way. Stephen Glenn, part owner of the Roses building on Main Street, traveled from Reno, Nev., Thursday to celebrate with store employees and the community. He said he and real estate investment partner John Spinola are looking for other investment opportunities in the community.
"It's refreshing to come here and see the dynamic economy," Glenn said. "We feel very fortunate to be here doing business."
Glenn mentioned he and his business partner would like to find a way to bring some type of coffee shop to the West End that could feature a drive-through. He said he was thinking of Starbucks before the company stopped expanding rapidly.
"We would like to continue efforts to develop this side of town," Glenn said.
Dozens of area residents waited in line to file through the doors of Roses for the first time.
Sawyer said as the crew prepared the store for business, there was a lot of curiosity and feedback from the community.
"Many people came to peek in the windows and see what we were doing before today," Sawyer said.
Store manager Alvin Jones said the store hired 35 employees, all from the surrounding community.
The building was left vacant approximately four years ago when Winn Dixie closed its location. It remained vacant until several months ago when Variety leased the property.
Roses Store filling Value City void in Cumberland Maryland.
March 04, 2009
Cumberland Time News
CUMBERLAND — Wilson Sawyer paid his first visit to the Queen City recently, arriving at the Greater Cumberland Regional Airport following a flight from Charlotte, N.C.
The corporate executive liked what he saw.
Tuesday, Sawyer told the Times-News he is opening a 50,000-square-foot department store at the former Value City location on Queen City Drive and that the store would employ 40 people.
"I think it's a great city. We're very impressed with the community. We'll try to make up for Value City leaving. We'll fill the void," said Sawyer, who is president of Variety Stores Inc., which plans to locate a Roses Store at 50 Queen City Drive in the next few months.
Sawyer said Roses Store is a "discount store that operates with a wide variety of family apparel, traditional discount store items, candy, housewares, domestics, toys, seasonal products" included in its retail inventory.
The store will operate from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.Monday through Saturday, and from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.
Sawyer said the decision to locate in Cumberland — one of 12 new Roses Stores scheduled to open in various states this year — was reached because "we thought it was a real opportunity with Value City leaving."
"We are a neighborhood store with customers typically coming from a 1- to 3-mile range.
"Our philosophy is to operate an everyday low-price store rather than a discount store. We consider ourselves an extreme-value store. Our reason to survive is that we think we can save our customers money," said Sawyer, who said his company has also looked at other locations formerly occupied by Value City stores.
The family-owned company is reportedly signing a multiyear lease. "We expect to be there for lots of years," he said.
There are 102 Roses stores operating in 14 states. In Maryland, Roses Stores are located in Baltimore and Lexington Park. Roses Stores are also located in Princeton, W.Va., as well as Harrisonburg and Charlottesville, Va.
Variety Stores Inc. also operates Maxway Stores, Super 10 and Super Dollar stores.
Asked to compare his store with similar retail businesses, Sawyer said, "We are different but we have similarities will all the big retail stores."
Roses Store is expected to open sometime between July 1 and the middle of August. The North Carolina-based company will make announcements concerning job applications and hiring in the near future.
Nice to see they are still able to expand...I thought they were pretty much a "dead" chain.
This former Rose's Department Store located in the College Square Shopping Center in Lexington, Virginia. It is now the The Antique Mall. Rose's built these types of stores in the early 1980's.
Here's a new Rose's Store that has opened in Charlotte, North Carolina.
I am totally surprised to hear of their expansion plans since I thought that they were "dead in the water" and were headed to the bargain bin. Hope they do well!
This Rose's is located in Westwood Shopping Center
This Rose's is located on Pio Nono Ave, Macon, GA
This Rose's is located on Shurling Drive in Macon, Georgia
This Rose's is located at Western Branch Blvd, Chesapeake,
This older Rose's is located in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
This older Rose's department store is located on COMMONWEALTH BLVD in MARTINSVILLE PLAZA
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Back Entarace of the Rose's Department store locaed on Commonwealt Blvd.
Did Rose's have anymore locations in Louisville, Kentucky. I heard they had one in the Algonquin Manor, which is now torn down. I aslo saw where on may have been located in the mall on Shelbyville Road which is now the food court of the mall. If you have any information please let me know.
Thomasville, Georgia looks like a old best
A Grand opening was held July 30, 2009 for the new Rose's Store in St. Paul, Virginia. St. Paul located in the western part of Wise County, Va. The store opens in a former Food Lion in the Riverside Plaza which had been vacant for about 5 years since Food Lion closed it's doors.
Rose's celebrates grand opening
BLUEFIELD – A new department store celebrated its grand opening Thursday with a ribbon cutting at the Mercer Mall.
The new store has more than 53,000 square feet of retail space, company officials said. The Rose's in Princeton off Stafford Drive will remain open.
New anchor stores set grand openings
By John Henderson
Rocky Mount Telegram
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Grand opening festivities have been scheduled in September for two new stores in Rocky Mount that will become the anchor tenants of their plazas.
Roses department store, opening in the vacant space in the Englewood Plaza that was a Winn-Dixie more than three years ago, will have its grand opening on Sept. 3, a store official said Friday. Door prizes are being given away at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, but other details of the event were not readily available.
Roses Stores, originally known as P.H. Rose, is a regional discount store centered out of Henderson.
Roses was purchased by Variety Wholesalers Inc. in 1997.
A company press release states that Roses store will offer a variety of value-priced merchandise that includes clothing and shoes, home furnishings, housewares, toys, food, health and beauty products and lawn and garden products.
The new store will employ approximately 40 to 50 employees from the Rocky Mount area, the press release states.
Variety Wholesalers operates more than 421 stores across the Southeast.
Roses had two previous locations in Rocky Mount, one on Fairview Road and another in the previous Tarrytown Mall.
Ollie's Bargain Outlet, who according to its Web page, "is the Mid-Atlantic's largest retailer of closeout, surplus and salvage merchandise," has scheduled its grand opening in the Tiffany Square Shopping Center for Sept. 30. That space also has been empty for several years since the Winn-Dixie there departed. Farm Fresh had a contract to move into the space but backed away from its plans when the economy faltered.
Local dignitaries and store officials are slated to be at the Ollie's ribbon-cutting ceremony that begins at 10 a.m. A Dixieland band will play, and doughnuts and coffee will be served. NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne also is scheduled to attend.
The Rocky Mount store at 450,000 square feet is a little bigger than most Ollie's, but the merchandise that will be offered will be similar to its other North Carolina stores, said Jerry Altland, vice president of real estate development for the company.
Altland said the store location seemed ideal, as the Rocky Mount metropolitan statistical area draws in 143,000 people.
"That's big enough for us, and far enough from our Goldsboro store, which is 44 or 45 miles away," Altland said. "It fits our demographic package of household incomes."
Dan Haines, Ollie's vice president of marketing and advertising, said the store offers name-brand items at drastically reduced prices.
"We deal in goods that are overruns, overstocks. They could be salvage. They could be liquidations," he said.
For example, Ollie's is selling Paula Deen Cookware that it received at reduced prices when a retailer went out of business, Haines said.
Ollie's Bargain Outlet is a chain of retail stores founded in 1982 in Harrisburg, Penn. The chain has locations in North Carolina in Cary, Elizabeth City, Fayetteville and Goldsboro.
The company also has stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia and New York.
The company gets inventory from retailers, suppliers or manufacturers throughout the country through closeouts and bankruptcy sales or other similar means of buying stock at below wholesale costs.
Ollie's Bargain Outlet of stores features its namesake, the late Oliver E. Rosenberg, in the form of humorous caricatures throughout its stores' interiors, merchandising displays and on its logo and outside signs.
Haines said the store also sells books, hardware, patio items and domestic items such as sheets, towels and pillows. The store also sells flooring and carpeting at reduced prices, but it does not offer installation.
The Return of Rose's to Willow Oak Plaza
Posted: Jul 20, 2009 4:37 PM EDT
Updated: Aug 03, 2009 3:37 AM E
After a quarter century in Waynesboro, the Rose's department store shut down in 2001, but it's about to come back.
Company officials announced Monday that the 50,000 square foot store will open in October. The retailer will occupy its former spot in Willow Oak Plaza on West Broad Street.
The more modern version of Rose's will employ about 40 people.
Waynesboro leaders say the store will be an anchor for the city's downtown district, which really needs it.
This Rose's is located at the Three Star Mall.
This is Rose's second entrance. The mall entrance. In the Three Star Mall
A former Rose's Dept. Store now a Belk located in the Lake Shore Mall.
This is the old Lawn & Garden Center of the old Rose's that located in the Lake Shore Mall. All Lawn & Garden Centers were built the same. They had a really good garden center.
a former Rose's Department store now closed. Not sure when the store closed.
This Rose's Department store is located in Moratok Shopping Center.
New Roses Store to Open in Smithville
November 30, 2009
by: Dwayne Page
Roses is coming to Smithville.
According to a prepared news release on the company's website, Henderson based Variety Stores, a subsidiary of Variety Wholesalers, Inc. a discount retailer, has announced it will open a 30,000 – square-foot Roses store, a unit of the company's retail division, in Smithville. The store is scheduled to open in early Spring 2010 at 750 South Congress Boulevard formerly Pamida.
In a statement to WJLE, Tony Luna says the Luna Realty Group co-brokered the deal to get Roses here. "About a month to six weeks ago, we were contacted by a group, I believe from Missouri, that we had the old Pamida building co-brokered with and they said the Roses group had contacted them about coming into this area. They were looking at several buildings in middle Tennessee."
"I met them at the airport and brought them in and they fell in love with the community. After a couple of weeks, I was contacted again. They said they were definitely going to come into the area. They signed a long term lease with the Pamida group to move in at the old Pamida building."
"We're as excited as they are about them coming into this community, especially since the county is buying the old Food Center building. With Roses there, that's going to be a hopping end of town again."
According to the company news release, Roses operates several other stores in McMinnville, Murfreesboro, Memphis and Bowling Green, Kentucky. The new Roses store will offer a combination of "Value-Priced" merchandise that includes Clothing & Shoes for the entire family, Home Furnishings, Housewares, Toys, Food, Health & Beauty products, and Seasonal products such as, Lawn & Garden, BTS, and Christmas Decor, all at "Value Driven Prices"!
Variety Stores concept and mission is simple—provide great value, convenience, and a pleasant shopping experience for our customers. The new store will create 30 to 40 new jobs in the Smithville area. Plans are to begin hiring for this location mid December 2009. Interested parties can contact Carl Wright, Senior Manager of Human Resources at HYPERLINK "mailto:cwright@vwstores.com" cwright@vwstores.com
Variety Wholesalers, Inc. is a family owned business that has been operating since 1922, and has been listed in Fortune 500 magazine as one of the largest, privately owned companies in the United States.
The retail stores operated by the Company are grouped into three main divisions – Roses, Maxway and Super 10. The corporation operates over 425 stores across the Southeastern States. For more information on Variety Wholesalers, Inc, visit our website at HYPERLINK "http://www.vwstores.com" www.vwstores.com.
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This Rose's Department store is located in Moratok Shopping Center.
was that an Ames?
I checked the photo gallery and it isnt there but i think it was definly a ames
Found these shirts for sale at a dollar store in Jacksonville, FL
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Just opened Rose's in Jacksonville, FL located in a former Food Lion. It's also currently the only one so far in Jacksonville.
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This is the Roses location at the Kennywood Shops in West Mifflin, PA.
This store is in the space formerly occupied by the Hills store that was my
final stop in retail.
I need to make a trip over there to check it out in detail, as I now live
on the opposite side of town. Apparently they have one other store in the
Pittsburgh area (New Kensington). Interesting that they had to add the words
"discount store" to their sign as the average Pittsburgher has no idea what Roses is.
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The Smithville, Tennesee Roses store was a former Pamida store. Shopko closed that store two years before converting the rest of the stores to Shopko Hometown. Roses has since been closed, and is now a church/daycare center.
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Made my first ever visit to a Roses store over the holiday weekend
(the one at the Kennywood Shops, in the former location of my old Hills store).
The layout, merchandise assortment, etc. reminded me quite a bit of Value City
(although Value City stores were much cleaner. This place was dark, dingy, and
a bit dirty). They had torn out the former snack bar area so the checkouts went
all the way up to the front windows. They had also installed entry and exit doors
facing directly into the parking lot (the old Hills doors faced parallel to the sidewalk
and funned you right in front of the snack bar). The restooms, which used to be
off the snack bar, had been moved back to the wall of the Men's Department, close
to a fitting room. The old office suite from Hills appeared to be gone (used to be
above the right rear corner of the store with a window looking out onto the sales floor.
Appears it has been moved downstairs.)
The employees were all very pleasant, and I did get myself a very nice pair of
Wrangler jeans for nine bucks. Can't complain about that.
There are building one in Tampa in Busch Plaza.
I was very surprised when North Carolina-based Roses moved into my old Hills store location in West Mifflin, PA, and was really surprised to drive by one in Indianapolis the other day while on a holiday weekend road trip.