Clas Ohlson company was founded in 1918 by the technically minded Clas Ohlson (1895–1979), as a mail order business based in the Swedish village of Insjön, Dalarna. Initially, only manuals and technical literature were sold, thus allowing people who lived in rural communities to obtain literature that would otherwise be unavailable. He opened his first shop in Insjön in 1926, but it was not until 1989, when the company opened a store in a shopping centre in central Stockholm, that it expanded into the retail business. The first store outside Sweden was opened 1991 in Oslo in Norway and in 1999, the
Robie's Country Store for 26 customers inside the store. The building and its historical pieces were purchased by the Robie's Country Store Preservation Corp. after the retirement of Lloyd Robie in 1997. The store operates under lease agreement. Robie's Country Store Robie's Country Store is a historic store at 9 Riverside Street in Hooksett, New Hampshire, United States. As a business, Robie's was in continuous operation between 1822 and 1997, the last 110 years under the ownership of the Robie family. The building, built in 1887, is a rare regional example of a store with a "boomtown" facade, and was added to the