[2] During its prime it was considered Long Island's most prominent discount department store chain.
[4] George Seedman continued to own and run the chain until 1987, when, at the age of 90, he began looking for buyers.
[2] Although it was a discount chain, by the 1980s its main markets were Nassau and Suffolk Counties, two of the richest in America at the time.
Nine of their twelve modern-sized stores were on Long Island, two in Brooklyn on Linden Blvd and Fourth Avenue, in Queens on Farmers Blvd, and in the Metro Mall on Metropolitan Ave, and another in The Bronx.
In the early 1980s the chain attempted to stake a claim in Northern New Jersey when it leased 2 vacant, former Two Guys locations.