discount house
Example Sentences
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A St. Louis discount house, H. E. Krisman & Co., pushed its gross to $3,500,000 annually�and lost $200,000 doing it.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the process, the distinction between a discount house and a department store is getting harder to tell without a scorecard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Polks, a large Chicago discount house, recently got a shipment of $49.95 record players that really had listed for that.
From Time Magazine Archive
The discount house is not a new idea.
From Time Magazine Archive
And so, just when their little world—kindly, malicious, censorious, as the case might be—was expecting to hear of their engagement, Godfrey Pavely suddenly left Pewsbury to spend a year in a great Paris discount house.
From Love and hatred by Lowndes, Marie Belloc
