Discount Drug Mart a Chain Store Guide list of the top 100 drug chains. The early 1990s brought increased competition to the industry. Discount Drug Mart was still smaller than the Ohio drug store chains of Revco and Phar-Mor, and were being threatened by superstores Kmart, Wal-Mart, and Target Corporation. Discount Drug Mart expanded across Ohio through the 1990's. Discount Drug Mart Discount Drug Mart, Inc., is an Ohio-based drug store chain. Its first store opened in Elyria, Ohio in 1969. In 1969, Parviz Boodjeh established the first Discount Drug Mart in Elyria, Ohio. The store originally filled prescriptions, and sold toiletries, grocery,
Chase-Newark Chase-Newark Chase-Newark was a short lived, upper middle-market Department Store based in Newark, New Jersey. The company also operated 2 suburban stores during its three-year history. Chase-Newark was founded early in 1964 when David Chase purchased the Kresge-Newark Department stores from the Kresge Foundation, and leased back 5 floors of the downtown Newark location [1]. When Sebastian Kresge (the founder of Kresge-Newark) died a foundation was set up to run the stores that bore his name. David Chase could have used the Kresge name but instead re-branded the stores Chase-Newark, as he planned to refocus the stores to be (like