Discount store Retail Ranking; June 2014), operates more than 10,121 discount stores or discount shops worldwide. Australia has four main discount shops including Aldi, Big W, Kmart, and Target, plus in the Sydney region only, Victoria's Basement. Woolworths entered Canada in the 1920s, but the stores were converted to the Foot Locker, Champs Sports and other stores by 1994. Kresge's entered Canada in 1929. Zellers was founded in 1931, and was acquired by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1978. Giant Tiger opened its first store in Ottawa in 1961, modeled on Woolworths. Winners was founded in 1982 in Toronto, and sells off-price
Discount Tire Discount Tire The Reinalt-Thomas Corporation (doing business as Discount Tire Company) is a tire and wheel retailer, headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Discount Tire is known as America's Tire in regions of California (except for San Diego County, where it is still known as "Discount Tire"). Discount Tire was founded in 1960, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, by Bruce T. Halle. After a couple of false starts in other businesses, Halle decided to go into business on his own. He rented an old plumbing supply building on Stadium Boulevard in Ann Arbor. Halle tidied up the place and hung a sign outside