Alco Stores

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Duckwall-ALCO Stores, Inc. is a regional retailer that specializes in offering a wide variety of products at reasonable prices to the smaller, underserved communities of America. Our specialty is delivering those products with the friendly, personal service found in the stores of yesteryear, but with the modern convenience and product selection of today's stores. In a retail market that has sacrificed quality and service for inexpensive products, Duckwall-ALCO has proven to be a winner year after year, as it continues its steady growth throughout the central United States.
All of our ALCO and Duckwall stores offer quality merchandise at great value prices. Categories include:

• Apparel: Men's, Women's, Kids'
• Automotive
• Candy, Snacks, Food
• Crafts
• Domestics
• Electronics, Video, Audio
• Fabrics
• Furniture
• Gifts
• Hardware

• Health and Beauty Aids
• Housewares
• Jewelry
• Lawn and Garden
• Pet Supplies
• Seasonal Items
• Shoes and Hosiery
• Sporting goods
• Stationery
• Toys

[wiseguy93]

The Duckwall-ALCO company operates 264 stores under two names, ALCO and Duckwall. 205 ALCO stores and 59 are Duckwall variety stores.

ALCO stores offer the full line of our quality merchandise to our customers, while the Duckwall variety stores offer a smaller selection. Both stores offer the same great product value and quality, as well as the same friendly hometown service. In fiscal 2007, the ALCO division alone accounted for approximately 94% of the total company sales of $475 million.

Our stores are located in 22 states across the central U.S. We also operate a 350,000 square-foot retail distribution facility in our original hometown of Abilene, Kansas. This facility services all of the company's stores throughout those 22 states,

[wiseguy93]

Duckwall-ALCO Stores, Inc. has been providing high-quality products at good-value prices to Americans for over 100 years. The company was founded by A. L. Duckwall in 1901 as a general merchandising operation in Abilene, Kansas. He incorporated the stores under the laws of Kansas, on July 2, 1915. For many years afterward—from its founding, in fact, until 1968—Duckwall ran the operation as a small variety store, or "dime" store, as they were called at the time.

In 1968, the company followed an emerging trend towards discount retailing, opening its first ALCO discount store. At the same time, we made an active decision that while we were growing, we would keep the hometown, community shopping experience that was so central to A. L. Duckwall's success. The concept was alive and well at our stores, and customers noticed.

By the late 1980's, our company was ready to grow. We adopted our current business strategy of opening stores in smaller markets while still retaining our hometown values, excellent product selection, and friendly service. Before long, we had built a national reputation on our service.

Today, that formula for success has helped us to grow from a single store in Abilene, Kansas, to a full-line discount retail chain with $475 million in sales. The company now operates 264 stores in 22 states across the central United States, including 205 ALCO stores, and 59 Duckwall variety stores. Yet in all of that time, we have never sacrificed the Midwestern values that helped to launch—and grow—our company.

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