It branched out into a full-service, upscale department store carrying the company's name by the end of the decade.

The Glossers were the ancestors of presidential advisor Stephen Miller, on his maternal side.

Most of the stores, including the original, which retained the full Glosser name, remained open into the early 1990s.

In 1989, the chain, feeling the pressure from the growing number of other discount retailers, was forced to declare bankruptcy,[5] operating as GB Stores, Ltd. under receivership.

The last Gee Bee Jr. store in Upper Yoder, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Johnstown, closed in 1993.