     marshalls, inc., is a chain of american off-price department stores owned by tjx companies. marshalls has over 750 conventional stores, as well as larger stores named marshalls mega store, covering 42 states and puerto rico. marshalls expanded into canada in march 2011. marshalls is u.s.'s second largest off-price family apparel and home fashion retailer, behind its sister company, t.j. maxx. ==history== marshalls traces its history to 1956, when alfred marshall (february 28, 1919 â december 28, 2013)http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/business/alfred-marshall-founder-of-stores-that-bear-his-name-dies-at-94.html?ref=obituaries&_r=0 gathered a band of innovative entrepreneurs on the east coast who included bernard goldston and norman barren (frank estey and bernard ribas joined the entrepreneurs in 1960 by purchasing bernard goldston's shares) to collectively start up the "brand names for less" concept. contemplating the dual postwar phenomena of a boom in the economy and growth in the suburbs, marshall and associates came upon a way to meet it profitably. together, they opened a self-service department store in beverly, massachusetts, offering apparel and homewares at alluringly low prices. additional floor space was "sublet" to offer customers shoes, hardware and sporting goods from separate sellers, but the separate ownership of those departments was invisible to the shopper. the original store also had a soda fountain/grill... another sublet of floor space, the "a & m luncheonette" (for alice & mickey masters, the proprietors). the concept proved extremely successful; ten years later, marshalls had become the leading off-price retail chain in the na
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