Your retail collection

[Caldor1999]

Do you have and old bags from stores like Ames Caldor Bradlees Jamesway Montgomery Ward Zayre Jefferson Ward Grand Union Best Woolworth Service Merchandise or stores that are still around like JC Penney Sears Kmart Target  Macys Filenes Lord&Tayloer old Catlogs bags carts ect andthing flyers and pics of them post them hear Fastfood chaines are alowed hear too:)

[store215]

I have bags from:
*Clover (regular bag and a special bag they would print for halloween)
*Caldor (got from a flea market)
*Bradlees (several diff. sizes)
*Ames
*Woolworth (several diff. sizes)
*Rite Price Pharmacy (a brief discount format by Rite Aid)
*Kmart bag, 90's logo

And several others I can't remember right now.

And caldor...could you please work on your spelling? it is a little (very) hard to read.

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by MBZ321
I have bags from:
*Clover (regular bag and a special bag they would print for halloween)
*Caldor (got from a flea market)
*Bradlees (several diff. sizes)
*Ames
*Woolworth (several diff. sizes)
*Rite Price Pharmacy (a brief discount format by Rite Aid)
*Kmart bag, 90's logo

And several others I can't remember right now.

And caldor...could you please work on your spelling? it is a little (very) hard to read.

lol sorry about that i tened to not look when im typeing or i type to fast and i mess up on words i know how to spell

[C. Fontaine]

You can see my collection in the "Inventory" part of this site.  I also have a few bags from Caldors and GC Murphys not pictured.

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by C. Fontaine
You can see my collection in the "Inventory" part of this site.  I also have a few bags from Caldors and GC Murphys not pictured.

are they the red ones or they the Grey ones

[Caldor1999]

i have a JC Penny Catlog from 1999 and some bags of stores that are still open but i wish i had a Caldor or a Ames Bage

[Zayre88]

1 Green/White Ames cardboard sign
1 Red / Green  Ames cardboard sign
2 Ames Home sale flyers
2 Ames Biggest Toy Sale books
7 Ames flyers from 1997 to 2002
1 Ames job application form
1 Ames bag
2 Bradlees Flyers
1 Home QUarters Flyer (1997)
1 Woolworth Bag
1 Bradlees job application form
1 Original Rich's 8?x11 paper ad
1 paper planagram for Pyrex products (Ames)
2 Ames annual reports 1999 & 2000

[Jag67]

1982 Ad from Sears.

Up until a while ago I had some great boxes from AM&A's, Sample, Sibley's, etc. All out of business. But my parents threw them out. No respect!!

[C. Fontaine]

Originally posted by Caldor1999

Originally posted by C. Fontaine
You can see my collection in the "Inventory" part of this site.  I also have a few bags from Caldors and GC Murphys not pictured.

are they the red ones or they the Grey ones

They are grey I believe.  I also found a "BEST" bag I have today...

[Anonymous]

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I have bags from
*Ames
*Bradlees
*Caldor
*Caldor ( pre-rainbow style)
*K-mart (before new logo)
*Service Merchandise
*ServiStar
*Sage Allen(small bag)
* abag that read "Christmas on the mall" (don't know where its from)

Flyers from
*Ames
*Bradlees
*Caldor
*G.FOX (before becoming Filenes)

a mug from
*D&L(Davidson & Levinthal)

tags from
*Ames
*Bradlees
*Caldor
*D&L(Daidson&Levinthal)
* K-mart (1990 logo)
*NU-Stars inc.
* Toys R US (just an old styled one they arn't GOB in my area)

[Zayre88]

Bradlees stuff from my collection ...  Two flyers and cart strap

[amesman]

I have the following:

Ames bag
Ames sticker(that was pasted on an old Jamesway cart)
Ames price tag
Ames cart handle
Bradlees cart logo
Caldor price tag
Caldor receipt
Caldor cart handle
Caldor seat cover(from the early metal carts)
Caldor matchbook
Jamesway cart logs
tons of old Howard Johnson's stuff(menus, brochures, glasses, ashtrays, etc)
Flah's pen
Albany Public Market matchbook
Grand Union matchbook
old Lord and Taylor shirt label
newer L&T shirt label(2)
Montgomery Ward Auto Express bag
Friendly's hat/shirt/apron(for my job..hehe)
Service Merchandise entrance sticker

I believe that's it..

[d_fife]

I have rich's, caldor, bradlees ames baskets. I worked at ames in plymouth nh and I have my old ames uniform and employee name tag. I have bags of some of these stoers and even some stuff purchased has the price tag of that store that I have

[Caldor1999]

i have a bag from filenes media play a bradlees cart strap and peaces of a bradlees logo and a peace of the r from caldor and hopefuly more to come soon
i also tryed getting a service emrchandise sticker from teh south hills mall but it was hard to get off and people were looking at me when i was doing it but iom gona go back there and next time when i see a caldor cart im gonna try and rip off the logo

[d_fife]

Originally posted by Zayre88
Bradlees stuff from my collection ...  Two flyers and cart strap

ohh and I have bradlees, ames and rich's brochure's adn a handle thing that says zayre. I have nothing of stuart's becasue I did not know anything about the chain until a year before it closed, and it was not worth knowing the chain as their stores were like a bigger woolworth and a mix between ames and big lots

my dad collected alot of the richs and bradlees baskets and caldor.

[Caldor1999]

hears what i own a bag form filenes a meda play bag a bradlees cart strap a big peaice of the a from a bradlees logo and a peice of the r from the caldor logo

[d_fife]

Originally posted by Caldor1999
hears what i own a bag form filenes a meda play bag a bradlees cart strap a big peaice of the a from a bradlees logo and a peice of the r from the caldor logo

my dad and I got a peice of a bradlees letter in dedham mass a few years ago.

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by d_fife

Originally posted by Caldor1999
hears what i own a bag form filenes a meda play bag a bradlees cart strap a big peaice of the a from a bradlees logo and a peice of the r from the caldor logo

my dad and I got a peice of a bradlees letter in dedham mass a few years ago.

cool witch part of it i do u have?

[d_fife]

Originally posted by Caldor1999

Originally posted by d_fife

Originally posted by Caldor1999
hears what i own a bag form filenes a meda play bag a bradlees cart strap a big peaice of the a from a bradlees logo and a peice of the r from the caldor logo

my dad and I got a peice of a bradlees letter in dedham mass a few years ago.

cool witch part of it i do u have?

I believe it was part of the B or D or L, I don't remember as that was 3 yeasr ago and don't remember where my dad put it. the part of the bradlees lettering falling of those buildings shows that the buildings the buildings are deteriorating.

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by d_fife

Originally posted by Caldor1999

Originally posted by d_fife

Originally posted by Caldor1999
hears what i own a bag form filenes a meda play bag a bradlees cart strap a big peaice of the a from a bradlees logo and a peice of the r from the caldor logo

my dad and I got a peice of a bradlees letter in dedham mass a few years ago.

cool witch part of it i do u have?

I believe it was part of the B or D or L, I don't remember as that was 3 yeasr ago and don't remember where my dad put it. the part of the bradlees lettering falling of those buildings shows that the buildings the buildings are deteriorating.

did it have a logo liek this or was it the older one like the one in new cityt ny and btw this is the stradford CT location this bradlees is in good condishion im gussing the ocean ari keeps it that way since its right by the long island sound

[Ameskid]

I have many Woolworth crayons, Gold Circle crayons, and also some old Kmart crayons.  Speaking of price stickers, I have 1 Nichols' Discount City that is hard to remove and 1 Shillito's that is impossible to get off. I tried to get some Ames-brand spray paint from my granma's house, but my grandparents wouldn't get the message!
Update! my price sticker inventory is as follows: (Some are just stickers)
2 Walgreens
2 sutherlands
1 Mr. How
1 HQ
1 Salem
1 True Value
2 Central hardware
1 ServiStar
1 Furrow
1 Trustworthy
3 different HWI
1 Surf Style
1 Woolworth
1 Husman's
1 Hader
3 Swallen's
1 Cokesbury
1 Kmart
2 Hechinger
1 Shillito Rikes
1 Captain comic
1 Ames
1 Indianapolis Children's Museum
1 John R. Green
1 Kmart Clearance
1 Hills
1 Hobby Lobby
1 Cappel's
1 Michaels
2 Gamestop
1 shoppers (not sure if that is the real name or not)
As of 5-7-06

[ameskmart1]

4 rolls of Caldor price stickers
2 Sears ads from 1980 and 1 from 1994
Future Shop ad
Kmart bag from 1980
Marshall Field's ad and credit card application
Montgomery Ward ad
Office Depot ad with old logo
Bon Marche ad and credit card application
old JCPenney, Sears, Mervyn's, credit cards
PETCO box for pets

[jbarn02]

[ameskmart1]

Originally posted by jbarn02
 

Off of Ebay.com

[beachgal26]

I have some oldies from Deb, Kinney Shoes and US Male.  They are the basic plastic or drawstring type and in excellent condition.

In addition, I have a few Petite Sophsiticate store bags, price tags, receipts, etc.  Once I knew that they were going out of business early this year, I bought as much as I could and kept as many tags and such that I could get my hands on.

[Ameskid]

Yessss! I'm not the only person in the world that collects price stickers! I also have a couple from a store called Swallen's, and one from Surf Style. Surf Style is a store that I know has a couple of locations in alabama.

[D_mancurrier]

I have:
2 Wal-Mart Mens Apperal Plan-o-gram sheets that I found on the floor
4 Wal-Mart Rollback, As Adveristed, and Always Low Price labels
3 Wal-Mart GM shelf tags
2 Wal-Mart Grocery shelf tags
1 Wal-mart blue bag
1 Nothing Held  Back-Seeling to the bare walls sign from Ames
1 case of various letter sized Store Closing sales from Jo-Ann Fabricd
1 window sign Store Closing from Jo-Ann Fabrics
1 Ames Grand Opening Brochure (I found it on the last day of the Central Ave, Holland Ohio Store as a gondola was being dismanlted)
Various weekly flyers
Various restroom cleaning checklists
Various bags
and 1 "Shoplifting is stealing" sign from Wal-MArt

[Ameskid]

Update, as of 7-4-2006, I now have in addition,
1 Woodward & Lothrop price tag
2 Zayre Price tags
1 Peoples price tag
1 Drug Fair price tag
1 Montgomery Ward price tag
1 Kmart price tag
1 Montgomery Ward clothing label
1 old Kmart price tag
1 Clover price tag
That Ames Spray paint!!!
Part of an old Ames ad
Part of an old Kmart ad
A complete Wye River/Hechinger brochure
Sears rock tumbling kit from 60s or 70s
Spotted but not gotten:
Wards and Sears vacuums
Korvettes ice skates
Wards tool kit
Old Sears stuff

[Ameskid]

BTW, D. Fife, you said you have different baskets. Can you take pictures and put them on here? Please?

[MontgomeryWardFan]

Originally posted by ameskmart1
4 rolls of Caldor price stickers
2 Sears ads from 1980 and 1 from 1994
Future Shop ad
Kmart bag from 1980
Marshall Field's ad and credit card application
Montgomery Ward ad
Office Depot ad with old logo
Bon Marche ad and credit card application
old JCPenney, Sears, Mervyn's, credit cards
PETCO box for pets

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Can you post the pages in the wards ad