Roses

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This Rose's is located in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina located in the Windy Hill Shopping Center.

Photo from Loopnet.com

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Here's the front view of the Rose's in Williamsburg, that was spilt and this half became Marshall's.

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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.

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Originally 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??

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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

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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.

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Originally 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?

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I saw a Roses for the first time near the Myrtle Beach area quite some years ago, on vacation.

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This Rose's is located at 6832 Market Street in the  
Ogden Shopping Center

Picture taken from the City of Wilmington homepage.

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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.

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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

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Here one last picture of the Fredericksburg Rose's before it's gone. Just the front remaining.

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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.

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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.

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Nice to see they are still able to expand...I thought they were pretty much a "dead" chain.

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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.

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Here's a new Rose's Store that has opened  in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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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!

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This Rose's is located in Westwood Shopping Center

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This Rose's is located on Pio Nono Ave, Macon, GA

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This Rose's is located on Shurling Drive in Macon, Georgia