Ann & Hope

Zayre88 · July 30, 2005, 02:06:03 PM

I never went to one of their store but it appears they were pioneers of the discount store business.

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/03-01/03-25-01/a01lo004.htm

Caldor1999 · July 30, 2005, 06:51:39 PM

yea ive heard of them how big were they???

Zayre88 · July 30, 2005, 09:45:28 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
yea ive heard of them how big were they???

What i know is that their stores were BIG but there was a few stores only. Some were closed, then others were downsized and the company closed.

d_fife · July 31, 2005, 07:10:10 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Zayre88
QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
yea ive heard of them how big were they???

What i know is that their stores were BIG but there was a few stores only. Some were closed, then others were downsized and the company closed.

there stores were the size of a super wal-mart.

The first store was in cumberland RI (It was near the railroad in a mill and I was by it yesterday), other stores were in Danvers in the Liberty Tree mall that opened in 1969, Watertown mass in the Arsenal mall that opened in 1983, Dartmouth mass that opened in the 70s or 80s, SEekonk mass on rt. 6, one in methuen mall that lasted 2 years, one in warwick ri on airport ave.

The one in DAnvers is now Kohl's, Super stop and shop, watertown is now home depot, seekonk is now the recoated homedepot, dartmouth mass got torn down andr ebuilt into lowe's, warwick and cumberland are scaled down to ann and hope clothing stores.

they closed in spring 2001. their stores were old and like an Ames and wal-mart mixed togehter.

Zayre88 · July 31, 2005, 07:18:33 PM

Ann & Hope storefront

d_fife · July 31, 2005, 07:37:46 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Zayre88
Ann & Hope storefront

that ws in dartmouth mass.

Zayre88 · July 31, 2005, 08:46:21 PM

Another store with bigger lettering

Caldor1999 · August 01, 2005, 06:27:29 PM

yea there stores were really big along with the logo

northgateman · August 21, 2005, 09:45:46 PM

While they did go out of business as a big discount department store , boy do I have memories of this store going to the Danvers location growing up.
They do operate an Ann&Hope outlet just down the road in another strip mall on the Danvers/Peabody line on Route 1 South..
They carry manily curtains, linens, ans sometimes garden stuff. It's always good to drop by and check out their mini version of the sign they used to have.

d_fife · August 21, 2005, 10:10:14 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by northgateman
While they did go out of business as a big discount department store , boy do I have memories of this store going to the Danvers location growing up.
They do operate an Ann&Hope outlet just down the road in another strip mall on the Danvers/Peabody line on Route 1 South..
They carry manily curtains, linens, ans sometimes garden stuff. It's always good to drop by and check out their mini version of the sign they used to have.

that was the only ann and hope I ever went into and again ann and hope was a cross between an ames adn a wal-mart and the one in danvers is now kohl's, stop and shop and peir 1 (I WAS THERE 3 days ago) It had a phramacy I remember. I went to that ann and hope in 1997.

Zayre88 · August 22, 2005, 09:11:22 AM

Ann & Hope sale flyer

C. Fontaine · August 22, 2005, 02:28:25 PM

There is one in Warwick, RI near T.F. Green. It is quite possibly the most ugly store I have ever seen.

Caldor1999 · August 22, 2005, 02:44:46 PM

are any of there stores still vacant???

d_fife · August 22, 2005, 02:50:59 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by C. Fontaine
There is one in Warwick, RI near T.F. Green. It is quite possibly the most ugly store I have ever seen.

I WENT BY IT A MONTH AGO AND IT WAS UGLY INDEED. IT HAD SOMEWHAT GLASS WINDOWS AND LOOKEDL IKE IT WAS FROM THE 60s.

recently I saw the first one in Cumberland RI (It is by Building 19) and it looked like a mill.

their stores were like the size of a super wal-mart.

d_fife · August 22, 2005, 02:54:42 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
are any of there stores still vacant???

None of their stores are vacant: The one in WAtertown, opened 83, in arsenal mall is Home depot and linens n things, Danvers (I WAS BY THE FORMER STORE LAST WEEK and that was the only one I ever went into and heard it was built in 1969, but the mall was built in 72) was torn down and built into kohl's, stop and shop (The latest prototype) and peir 1; the one in north dartmouth (built in 1983 I believe or the 70s and I saw it vacant 2 years ago) was torn down last year and rebuilt into lowe's; I heard the one in Seekonk mass was torn down and rebuilt into a relocated home depot; the one in Warwick is now a scaled down store (they closed all the mass ones in early 2001 and scaled down the 2 in RI!, they got out of the department store biz) called ann and hope outlets and so was the one in cumberland ri.

C. Fontaine · August 22, 2005, 10:11:04 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
QuoteOriginally posted by C. Fontaine
There is one in Warwick, RI near T.F. Green. It is quite possibly the most ugly store I have ever seen.

I WENT BY IT A MONTH AGO AND IT WAS UGLY INDEED. IT HAD SOMEWHAT GLASS WINDOWS AND LOOKEDL IKE IT WAS FROM THE 60s.

recently I saw the first one in Cumberland RI (It is by Building 19) and it looked like a mill.

their stores were like the size of a super wal-mart.

YES!!! and the street side sign is the most UGLY thing ever!

Caldor1999 · August 24, 2005, 03:47:58 AM

they do look ugly they dident have that image Caldor Bradlees Ames or Jamesway had that logo is so plane

d_fife · September 02, 2005, 12:10:41 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
they do look ugly they dident have that image Caldor Bradlees Ames or Jamesway had that logo is so plane

this is what the first ann and hope (in cumberland RI) looked like and it opened 1953.

store215 · November 16, 2005, 05:05:48 PM

Ann & Hope Bag

JimSawhill · December 11, 2005, 10:25:40 PM

I think ann & hope is still in business... the old Stop & Shop in Vernon is an outlet of A&H. If I'm not mistaken.

d_fife · December 11, 2005, 10:31:57 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by JimSawhill
I think ann & hope is still in business... the old Stop & Shop in Vernon is an outlet of A&H. If I'm not mistaken.

Ann and hope moved out of the discount business and is this chain of outlet stores. some stores got scaled back to those new Ann and hopes

JimSawhill · December 11, 2005, 10:35:43 PM

Thanks...

Crawford · December 25, 2005, 10:54:01 PM

I practically grew up in the one in Seekonk Mass. Was also the first store I shop lifted from that I got caught. Was another in a long line of local discount stores. What did them in was raising their prices and trying too hard to be like Wal-Mart. I miss this store a lot. Buliding was demolished to build a massive Home Depot and Stop & Shop.

The one in Cumberland was also pretty cool since it was in an old factory and had a conveyor belt that brought the carriages up and down and you walked on the stairs next to it. The downstairs part is now a Building 19 salvage store and the upstairs is the Ann & Hope outlet of home store. They had a pretty nice snack bar as well.

TRJ_22487 · December 30, 2012, 03:33:30 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww21JZj8glk

This amazing video has appeared on Youtube from the Danvers, Massachusetts - Liberty Tree Mall location back in 1980.
A few others in this thread had mentioned this store, though all of those posts were from 2005...
For anyone wondering what the store was like in its prime, it doesn't get more real than this video.
This was the chain that Walmart and Kmart based themselves on. They were the first department store to use shopping carts.
They were also the first store to allow the consumer to pick the item off the shelf themselves. To me it looks like Caldor really stole their concept heavily as well in the rainbow era. By the time I was a teen Ann & Hope was a shadow of their former self, the last time I was in one was 2000 with my grandparents.

"Ann & Hope. One day at work in the camera dept.
of Ann & Hope.
Dec 31, 1980
Where are these people now?"

So funny, just today I found the video of the Lechmere from this same mall shot later in the 80's. If only more of these videos existed!

JimSawhill · February 09, 2013, 01:03:28 PM

Quote from: TRJ_22487 on December 30, 2012, 03:33:30 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww21JZj8glk

This amazing video has appeared on Youtube from the Danvers, Massachusetts - Liberty Tree Mall location back in 1980.
A few others in this thread had mentioned this store, though all of those posts were from 2005...
For anyone wondering what the store was like in its prime, it doesn't get more real than this video.
This was the chain that Walmart and Kmart based themselves on. They were the first department store to use shopping carts.
They were also the first store to allow the consumer to pick the item off the shelf themselves. To me it looks like Caldor really stole their concept heavily as well in the rainbow era. By the time I was a teen Ann & Hope was a shadow of their former self, the last time I was in one was 2000 with my grandparents.

"Ann & Hope. One day at work in the camera dept.
of Ann & Hope.
Dec 31, 1980
Where are these people now?"

So funny, just today I found the video of the Lechmere from this same mall shot later in the 80's. If only more of these videos existed!

What are those things pictured on the shelf below the Photo Processing photo?? They look like old fashioned computers!!! :)

BillyGr · February 09, 2013, 07:33:36 PM

Quote from: JimSawhill on February 09, 2013, 01:03:28 PM
Quote from: TRJ_22487 on December 30, 2012, 03:33:30 PM

What are those things pictured on the shelf below the Photo Processing photo?? They look like old fashioned computers!!! :)

You mean this photo?

Those would be typewriters (some of them may have been early versions of a word processor, which would be an early relative of the computer).

TRJ_22487 · February 11, 2013, 05:18:58 PM

Haha yes those are simply typewriters and telephones, maybe a word processor is in there but it looks like only typewriters. By this point personal computers were starting to look like what we are familiar with today though, monitor, mouse, drives & such. Commodore, Apple, Microsoft, IBM were the big players back then.

JimSawhill · February 23, 2013, 01:21:26 PM

Quote from: TRJ_22487 on February 11, 2013, 05:18:58 PM
Haha yes those are simply typewriters and telephones, maybe a word processor is in there but it looks like only typewriters. By this point personal computers were starting to look like what we are familiar with today though, monitor, mouse, drives & such. Commodore, Apple, Microsoft, IBM were the big players back then.

The only big name of those 3 is Apple...

My first computer was a commodore

Retail_247 · April 02, 2022, 08:17:03 PM

Here's a video showing the closing of the Ann & Hope Curtain & Bath Outlet store in Warwick, RI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdesgeSTmLo

The building was originally an Ann & Hope discount store before it was downgraded and downsized. Most of the original fixtures were still in place, including the optical center which apparently was still being used.

Retail Regents · April 14, 2022, 03:37:38 PM

Quote from: a_person_96 on April 02, 2022, 08:17:03 PMHere's a video showing the closing of the Ann & Hope Curtain & Bath Outlet store in Warwick, RI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdesgeSTmLo

The building was originally an Ann & Hope discount store before it was downgraded and downsized. Most of the original fixtures were still in place, including the optical center which apparently was still being used.

Kind of surprising they had a set of Target carts that are much older than what is commonly reused up here. They probably have ghost TARGET logos underneath those Ann & Hope stickers.