discount house

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A St. Louis discount house, H. E. Krisman & Co., pushed its gross to $3,500,000 annually�and lost $200,000 doing it.

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

There, crowds of customers were enthusiastically shopping in France's first discount house, with prices of refrigerators, toasters and all other goods cut a flat 20% under prices fixed by manufacturers and retailers.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Skelton finally turns in, he lies down�usually with two or three of his dogs�on something that suggests a discount house with springs.

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