discount house

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"In addition to the trade discount, we get an extra 1� discount by paying cash for everything we buy," says Los Angeles' William E. Phillips, whose discount house grossed $6,000,000 last year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Polks, a large Chicago discount house, recently got a shipment of $49.95 record players that really had listed for that.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the process, the distinction between a discount house and a department store is getting harder to tell without a scorecard.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shoppers quickly learned to visit a service-minded store for a free lesson about a particular product, then go down the street to a discount house to buy the item for 25% less.

From Time Magazine Archive

And so, just when their little world—kindly, malicious, censorious, as the case might be—was expecting to hear of their engagement, Godfrey Pavely suddenly left Pewsbury to spend a year in a great Paris discount house.

From Love and hatred by Lowndes, Marie Belloc