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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1922
Page
8
A forthcoming San Antonio store introduces a vast millinery and dress department. It highlights silk patterns, infant and women’s wear, and affordable essentials from undergarments to outer garments. Managers promise early stock and attractive pricing as preparations for opening proceed.
In an intimate sketch to employers, President Grant discusses the origin of a popular 25 cent store model. The piece notes the first Tyne Mass location, new San Antonio opening, other stores in Worth and Dallas, and the nationwide reach with offices in New York Hoboken and Boston area distribution. It outlines store manager qualifications, training, and career paths within the W T Grant organization.
Grant stores expand as the nation’s chain adds 15 new outlets. San Antonio is listed among the new stores, reflecting a nationwide growth guided from a New York office. W. W. Grant founded the chain and leads a top management team including C. B. Freeman and Th. A. Rowe, with department heads in real estate, operations, personnel, and store openings. The roster of Giant Stores features numerous specialty lines from dry goods to menswear, hosiery, and millinery, signaling broad retail presence.
In the Grant ite official publication a greeting from Miss Helen Howe senior director of the San Antonio store thanks Grant girls for warm reception and practical demonstrations of courtesy and cooperation shown by Mrs. Beck in Brockton Newark and Lyn.
The Grant chain, now with over 30 stores nationwide, opens new locations rapidly as buildings are prepared. The W T Grant stores offer micro merchandise from 25 cents to 1 dollar across 40 departments including music, house furnishings, men’s and women’s wear. Records are supplied by Bell Phonograph, with prices up to 60 cents a record, and publishers expedite new releases. The opening wave draws large crowds as officials praise Grant service and staff dedication.
A New York warehouse for W. T. Grant displays a vast stock of European dolls and novelties bound for the American holiday market. Fifty skilled doll makers across Europe craft blue eyed brown eyed and black eyed dolls with various curls and outfits, ready to ship to shops nationwide before Christmas. The 60,000 square foot, fireproof facility houses exclusive Grant goods and imported wares for the season.
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