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| Company type | discount department store |
|---|---|
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 1957 in Lynn, Massachusetts[1] |
| Founder | Harold Sparks |
| Defunct | 1978 |
| Fate | stores sold individually to other chains |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Boston and US Midwest |
| Products | Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics and housewares. |
| Parent | Jewel |
| Website | None |
Turn Style was a chain of discount department stores and was a division of Chicago-based Jewel, the parent company of the Jewel Food Stores supermarket chain. Some mid-western Turn Styles had an Osco Pharmacy, at the time very uncommon for a discount store in the 1960s and 1970s.[2] At its peak, the chain comprised more than fifty stores throughout Chicago, as well as in downstate Illinois, Decatur, Illinois, Moline, Illinois; Davenport, Iowa; Omaha, Nebraska; Boston, Massachusetts; Merrillville, Indiana; Michigan, and Racine, Wisconsin.
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