Zayre
Type	Department store
Founded	1956, Hyannis, Massachusetts
Headquarters	Framingham, Massachusetts
Key people	Malcolm L. Sherman, CEO; Max Feldberg and Morris Feldberg, Founders
Industry	Retail
Products	Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics and housewares.

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History

Zayre was founded by brothers Max and Morris Feldberg, who immigrated to the United States from outside of Kiev, Ukraine, in the early 1900s. Their first chain of stores was the Bell Shoppes, which sold women’s apparel. Max had a keen business acumen, and Morris was a natural merchandiser. Together they built a retail powerhouse. Zayre started in Hyannis, Massachusetts in 1956 as a discount department store. It was initially focused on the Northeast but soon expanded to other areas including a considerable midwestern presence. During the early 1970s the company started the TJ Maxx chain. In 1984 it started the BJ's Wholesale Club chain. In 1985, Zayre acquired California based Home Club. After the sale of the Zayre chain to Ames, the company changed its name to TJX Companies, which is still in business today. Map of Ukraine with Kiev highlighted Coordinates: , Country Ukraine Oblast Kiev City Municipality Raion Municipality Government  - Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi Elevation 179 m (587 ft) Population (2006)  - City 4,450,968  - Density 3,299/km² (8,544. ... Hyannis Harbor, Hyannis Statue of Iyannough, in downtown Hyannis. ... The interior of a typical Macys department store. ... Regional definitions vary The Northeastern United States is a region of the United States defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... TJ Maxx is a specialty store that sells off-price apparel, giftware, and fine jewelry. ... BJs Wholesale Club, Inc. ... Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see Homebase (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The TJX Companies, Incorporated (NYSE: TJX) is an off-price department store chain based in Framingham, Massachusetts in the United States. ...

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Zayre developed an image problem due to several reasons. It was often seen as offering low class and low quality merchandise while many of the stores began to look seriously outdated. In 1975 Zayre started a program entitled "Zayre 75" to remodel and update the stores from the existing old looking pink and blue color scheme to an updated, orange and brown theme. The first store to be remodeled was in Waltham, Massachusetts. However, many of the new stores opened up during the 1980s suffered from cluttered aisles and messy appearances.In Feb 1988 they filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, and in October 1988 the Zayre stores were sold to Ames. This doubled the size of the Ames chain, but it caused many problems for Ames and brought about a large loss for that chain. Eventually Ames would close 74 stores, and convert the rest into Ames stores. As a result, some of the remaining Zayre stores operated under the Ames name until Ames ceased operations in 2002.   Often called the true birthplace of the industrial revolution, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. ...

Name

The original name of the company was "Zayre Güt," which means "very good" in Yiddish. Not having enough money to pay for a sign that included both words, ownership instead installed the first word "ZAYRE" to the front of their building with the intentions of adding the "GÜT" later. However, the company became branded as "ZAYRE" and the owners feared that adding the second half of the name might confuse customers. Yiddish (ייִדיש, Jiddisch) is a Germanic language spoken by about four million Jews throughout the world. ...

A former Zayre department store in Dubuque, Iowa featuring the alternate Zayre "Serpentine" logo. The building is now home to ShopKo.

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Slogans

• It pays to shop at Zayre...Everyday!
• Zayre - Fabulous Department Stores!
• Compare...you can't do better than Zayre!
• Zayre is going "Price-happy!" (circa 1977)
• We'd like to make Zayre your store!
• There's always a sale a Zayre!
• Save at Zayre - All Day and Night We'll Be There. (70's holiday jingle when stores opened for 24hrs)
• Take another look at Zayre!, Be a Super Santa! (December 1978)
• Get a Good Look at Zayre!

Trivia

• In "Summer of 4 Ft. 2", a seventh season episode of The Simpsons, a store is shown called TeeJay's ZayMart, which was created by one of the writers who lived near a Zayre. The "Tee Jay" is likely a reference to the retail chain T.J. Maxx, owned by the TJX Corporation, which was the former parent company of Zayre.
• The Zayre store in Chattanooga, Tennessee (located in the Golden Gateway Shopping Center, now owned by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee) was home to a local TV station (WTVC-TV 9), which has since moved to a new building on State Highway 153.
• The Zayre '75 "Star" logo features the Cooper font. Zayre also used used an alternate logo that featured the Serpentine font.

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Former Zayre locations

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See Also

• Bradlees
• Ames
• Jamesway
• Service Merchandise
• Montgomery Ward
• Woolco

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External links

• RetailFanClub
• A Zayre overview
• Zayre advertisement (1978)