Question: How would you describe both Zayre and Ames from the US?
Context: Mammoth Mart was a discount department store chain, located in the northeastern United States, primarily in the New England area.  The chain was founded by Max Coffman and Henry Gornstein in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1956, and was something of a prototype for the large, downscale department store, selling housewares, hardware and clothing in stark, unfussy buildings, usually in suburban shopping center locations.  Other discount department store retailers like K-Mart, Zayre, and Bradlees would subsequently expand on this concept. Heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory (HBChPT) is an effective quantum field theory used to describe the interactions of pions and nucleons/baryons.  It is somewhat an extension of chiral perturbation theory (ChPT) which just describes the low-energy interactions of pions.  In a richer theory one would also like to describe the interactions of baryons with pions.  A fully relativistic Lagrangian of nucleons is non-predictive as the quantum corrections, or loop diagrams can count as formula_1 quantities and therefore do not describe higher-order corrections. Hanover Mall is a one story, enclosed shopping mall with 80 shops and restaurants, including Macy's, Old Navy, Sears, and Walmart in Hanover, Massachusetts.  The mall was built in 1971 and renovated in 1999.  It serves local communities as a neighborhood mall of sorts, an alternative for shoppers looking to avoid the larger, more crowded malls nearby.  Originally the mall anchors were Woolworth, Zayre and Almy's.  Almy's closed in 1987 and its space was filled by Filene's.  Zayre became Ames after the chains merged in 1989.  Jordan Marsh closed in 1996 shortly after it became Macy's and was then torn down to become a new wing which housed JCPenney.  Filene's was expanded about this time.  Old Navy replaced the food court which had not seen enough business to remain.  In 2002, Ames closed and the space became Wal-Mart (currently branded as Walmart) in Fall 2004.  In January 2015, it was announced the JCPenney store was closing as part of a plan to close 39 underperforming stores nationwide. Ames Department Stores Inc. was an American chain of discount stores based in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, United States.  The company was founded in 1958 with a store in Southbridge, Massachusetts, and at its peak operated 700 stores in 20 states, including the Northeast, Upper South, Midwest, and the District of Columbia, making it the fourth largest discount retailer in the United States. The Hollywood Fashion Center was a shopping mall located at the South East corner of Hollywood Boulevard (State Road 820) and US 441 (State Road 7) in Hollywood, Florida.  The mall opened in 1972, and had four anchor stores: JCPenney, Richard's (later Zayre/Ames), Burdines and Jordan Marsh.  With the opening of Pembroke Lakes Mall six miles west in Pembroke Pines in 1992, most of the anchor stores in the Fashion Center moved to the bigger stores at Pembroke Lakes Mall.  The mall closed in 1993, although a Gordon Food Service supermarket opened in the former Burdines in 1996, it later closed sometime in the 2010s.  For a brief period from 2002-2004 it served as an indoor flea market named Millennium SuperMall "Hollywood's City Place" until it was discovered many of the booths were selling stolen wares.  It has been closed since then. Zayre was a chain of discount stores that operated in the eastern half of the United States from 1956 to 1990.  The company's headquarters was in Framingham, Massachusetts.  In October 1988, Zayre's parent company, Zayre Corp., sold the stores to the competing Ames Department Stores, Inc. chain, and in June 1989, Zayre Corp. merged with one of its subsidiaries, The TJX Companies, parent company of T.J. Maxx.  A number of stores retained the Zayre name until 1990, by which time all stores were either closed or converted into Ames stores.  (The TJX Companies, which also owns Marshalls, HomeGoods, and Sierra Trading Post, is still in operation as of 2017.) "Time, Time" is the title track of a 1967 album by Ed Ames.  The song is also known as "Tu As Beau Sourire" (You Have a Beautiful Smile).  The music was composed by Baselli & Canfora with lyrics by Michel Jourdan.  In English the lyrics were written by Mort Shuman.  On the 'Billboard Hot 100, "Time, Time" peaked at number sixty-one, and was Ames' second of three number ones on the Easy Listening chart in the US, when it topped the chart in June 1967. Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley.  It was founded as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) laboratory.  That agency was dissolved and its assets and personnel transferred to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on October 1, 1958.  NASA Ames is named in honor of Joseph Sweetman Ames, a physicist and one of the founding members of NACA.  At last estimate NASA Ames has over US$3.0 billion in capital equipment, 2,300 research personnel and a US$860 million annual budget. AMES, short Air Ministry Experimental Station, was the name given to the British Air Ministry's radar development team at Bawdsey Manor in the immediate pre-World War II era.  Although the team would be forced to move on three occasions, changing names as part of these moves, the AMES acronym became the basis for naming Royal Air Force radar systems through the war.  The same numbering sequence was used after the war as well, but generally dropped the AMES from the name.  A good example is the Type 80, which was officially an AMES type, but rarely appears with that marque. The TJX Companies, Inc. (), is an American apparel and home goods company based in Framingham, Massachusetts.  It claims to be the largest international apparel and home fashions off-price department store chain in the United States.  The company evolved from the Zayre discount department store chain, founded in 1956, which opened its first branch of T.J.Maxx in 1976 and its first BJ's Wholesale Club in 1984.  In 1988, Zayre sold its nameplate to rival Ames, and T.J.Maxx was renamed "The TJX Companies, Inc.".
Answer: discount stores