McCrory Stores his last name so he would not have to pay for extra letters on his store signs. McCrory died in 1923 having built McCrory Stores Corporation into a success. However, in 1933 the company declared bankruptcy and was dissolved, but it was eventually re-established as McCrory Stores and resumed operations. One of the early investors was Sebastian Spering Kresge, who later founded the S.S. Kresge chain, which became Kmart. In 1899, Kresge traded his interest in the McCrory's Memphis, Tennessee store for McCrory's interest in the Detroit, Michigan, store, giving him control there. In 1987, the Kmart Corporation sold its
Vanish (brand) Thick Liquid Disinfectant Bowl Cleaner sold for industrial and institutional use only is 9.25% hydrochloric acid by weight. Vanish is now sold in the US under the Scrubbing Bubbles Vanish Continuous Clean Drop-Ins brand, reducing the Vanish name to a sub-brand. Vanish (brand) Vanish is a brand of toilet bowl cleaner produced by S. C. Johnson in North America. They obtained the brand through the purchase of The Drackett Company in 1992. The Vanish name has since accompanied S. C. Johnson's Scrubbing Bubbles brand as a sub-brand. Drackett purchased the product from inventor Judson Dunaway of Dover, New Hampshire, who