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Phar-Mor
1982–2002
“Power buying, deep discounts.”
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The cavernous deep-discount drugstore where the aisles ran long and the prices ran low — "power buying," the founder called it. It was undone by one of the biggest corporate frauds of the era and, after years of decline, was liquidated in 2002.
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