Word: stores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...style product selection comes as no accident, according to Madanian. "That's one of the advantages of being a small independent store," Madanian says. "I can handpick everything, so we get a lot of old-fashioned things...
...Madanian's estimation, the store's single best-selling item is the Mason and Pearson hairbrush. It's more expensive than the average CVS plastic model, but "it lasts for twenty years," Madanian says, indicating the finely-crafted brush in a box on the pharmacy counter. "Definitely a quality item," she adds...
Although the store has been in operation since 1854, it lost much of its original decorative finery over the years. Although soda fountains typically evoke the fifties, Billings and Stover actually abandoned their original design in 1947, concentrating revenue reinvestment efforts on the store's pharmaceutical business...
...recent years, however, increased competition from national chains such as CVS left Billings and Stover struggling to survive. By the middle of 1994, Madanian says she was ready to try anything to stay in business. So she recreated (as best she could) the store's original soda fountain...
...wanted to make a major change that would give the store new life," Madanian says...