Second was Kresge ... in 5&10s. He began at a chain called D&C, which once had 53 stores in Michigan alone, but which now doesn’t exist. Then Bur-lers Variety, another local dime store chain ...

Kresge. The elder Kresge was a legendary retailing entrepreneur who founded a chain of five-and-ten-cent stores in the United States and Canada, parlaying the concept into the S.S. Kresge Company, an ...