Boscov's

Boscov's Inc. is a family-owned department store with fifty locations in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, Connecticut, West Virginia and Rhode Island.

[4][5] A Pennsylvania Historical Marker commemorating Solomon Boscov stands at the site of the original store.

[7] Boscov's first entered the Philadelphia market in the late 1980s by opening Ports of the World stores.

In 1983, Boscov's leased the Fowler's department store building and opened the next year in downtown Binghamton, New York.

[7] The new stores opened just prior to the 2008 economic downturn and in August 2008, Boscov's filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

[2] Boscov's continuing success makes it regarded as somewhat of an "outlier" because many department store retailers had begun pulling back to a degree on brick-and-mortar formats.

Since 2009, the chain continues to expand and opened its 47th store in Milford, Connecticut, in October 2018.

In 2020, Boscov's announced plans to open at Eastwood Mall in Niles, Ohio.

[25][26] When Gimbels went out of business in 1986, WPVI-TV and Boscov's took over the sponsorship of the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade.

The Boscov's in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, was used to represent the fictional department store Illustra in the 1987 film Mannequin.