McCrory's was a chain of five and dime stores in the United States based in York, Pennsylvania.

The stores typically sold shoes, clothing, housewares, fabrics, penny candy, toys, cosmetics, and often included a lunch counter or snack bar.

In 1899, Kresge traded his interest in the Memphis, Tennessee, McCrory store for the Detroit, Michigan, one, giving him control there.

[5] The company was dissolved, but was eventually re-established as McCrory Stores and resumed operations.

At its height, McCrory's operated 1,300 stores under its own name and as TG&Y, McLellan (merged in 1958), H. L. Green, Silvers, G.C.

The Israeli financier Meshulam Riklis purchased McCrory in 1960 and merged it with the rival H.L.Green Co., moving its headquarters to Springettsbury Township, Pennsylvania, in 1963.

Riklis controlled McCrory's through the Rapid-American holding company, which was managed by Samuel Neaman.

As the economic expansion of the 1980s progressed, McCrory continued to expand and remodel stores as volume and profits grew exponentially.

In 1989, McCrory purchased GC Murphy Co, a variety story chain, from Ames Department Stores.

However, the changing retail landscape including the migrating of shoppers from the inner cities to the influx of superstores run by Target Corporation and Walmart had diminished the competitiveness of five and dime stores.