It operated the Hartfield chain of women's ready-to-wear apparel in the Los Angeles area, and starting in 1960, the Zodys chain of discount retail stores (1960–1986), which operated locations in California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Michigan.

[2] Additionally, a 1943 advertisement showed branches at 253 South Market Street in Inglewood, 650 Pacific Boulevard in Huntington Park, and 705 South Pacific Avenue in San Pedro (the latter opened 1941), all busy downtown shopping districts of what were once separate towns that had become working and middle class suburbs of Los Angeles.

Hartfield’s decided to enter the discount department store business with a new chain to be called Zodys, and opened its first one on June 13, 1960, in Garden Grove, in Central Orange County, California.

[5] The Michigan stores were unprofitable, and were sold in 1974 when Hartfield-Zodys filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Locations included:[6] Bankrupt again by the early 1980s, the parent company, now known as HRT Industries, began closing stores in 1984.