[5] Long a dominant Toledo retailer, Lion held an estimated thirty to forty percent market share in 1998.

[6] The store influenced the growth of Toledo's retail environment, with developers acknowledging that their projects hinged on whether Lion would become an anchor tenant.

[6] Lion's outsized influence on local consumers prompted one local retail executive to jokingly remark that "people born in Toledo are born with two things: a Social Security card and a Lion credit card.

"[6] In the mid 19th century, New Englander Frederick Eaton opened up a dry goods store in Toledo.

It is at the Franklin Park Dillard's location where one can see the lion statues, who preside in the store's main atrium.