A discount store is a retailstore offering a wide range of products, many branded, at discounted prices. They are not Pound or Dollar Stores, which do not normally offer as many branded items.
Some department stores leased space to individual merchants, along the lines of the new change in late 17th-century London, but by 1900 the smaller companies were purchased or eventually replaced by the larger companies.
Discountstores are not dollar stores, which sell goods at a dollar or less.
There were hundreds of discountstores in operation, with their most successful period occurring during the mid-1960s in the United States with discountstore chains such as Zayre, Kuhn's-Big K (sold to Wal-Mart in 1981), GEM, Katz Drug Stores, TGandY and Woolco (closed in 1983, part sold to Wal-Mart) amongst others.
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