Schuster's

Schuster & Co., was a department store chain, founded in 1883, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and it is now defunct.

[1][2] Schuster's opted for several neighborhood stores over a single downtown location,[3] and Schuster's locations included 2151 N. Third St. (now Martin Luther King Jr. Drive), 12th and Vliet streets and 11th and Mitchell streets,[4] Packard Plaza and Capitol Court.

[4] Golda Meir worked at Schuster's after graduating from high school in 1915 and before moving to Palestine in 1921.

[6][7] Schuster's notable marketing efforts included the first trading stamps, in 1891,[8] an early version of the charge card called Budga-Plate, a doll named Billie the Brownie from 1927 to 1955,[9][10] Schuster's Christmas Parade,[5] and the catch-phrase "Let's go by Schuster's where the streetcar bends the corner round.

An unrelated group of furniture stores in Arkansas, also carrying the Schuster's name, operated for many years, with locations in Little Rock and North Little Rock, as well as a Pine Bluff store that eventually transferred briefly to Conway.