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,
Charles T. Kresge and the Thomas Alva Edison Award in 2008. He was also honored by election to the US National Academy of Engineering (2007). In 2011, he was Honorary Chair of the 22nd North American Catalysis Society meeting in Detroit, Michigan. Charles T. Kresge Charles T. Kresge is a chemist and retired Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Saudi Aramco. He was R&D Vice President at the Dow Chemical Company. His area of expertise is inorganic synthesis and his primary field of research is in the area of crystalline aluminosilicate materials, particularly for the discovery of mesoporous molecular sieves. Kresge received his bachelor's