The Bargain! Shop

The Bargain! Shop is a Canadian discount department store chain founded in 1991. 
== History ==
In 1991, F.W. Woolworth founded The Bargain! Shop as a closeout chain for Woolworth Canada stores. By 1992, they already had 92 stores. 
By 1993, most Canadian Woolworth stores had been turned into Woolco or closed, Woolworth decided to take most of the remaining stores and turn them into The Bargain! Shop locations. They also turned some smaller Woolco locations into The Bargain! Shop. This grew their store count to 194 stores across Canada. 
In 1994, all Canadian Woolco and Woolworth locations were bought out by Walmart Canada. Woolworth would continue to operate The Bargain! Shop locations.
In 1997, F.W. Woolworth filed for bankruptcy and closed all of their stores. Venator Group (Later Foot Locker) purchased the remains of the company and continued to run The Bargain! Shop.
In 1999, Venator Group was on the verge of bankruptcy, becuase of this, they closed 109 The Bargain! Shop locations, and completely left the Québec market. Soon after, The Bargain! Shop was sold off to a private Canadian company, who are still the owners today. 
=== Post F.W. Woolworth ===
In 2001, Bi Way closed all of its stores, The Bargain! Shop acquired some of these leases to increase their location number.
In the 2000s, The Bargain Shop began its continual decline which it still suffers with today. Over the past 20 years, they have continually closed stores, many of them have turned into Dollarama locations. 
In 2008, the retail store SAAN went bankrupt and closed all of its locations, The Bargain! Shop acquired 93 leases, this was The Bargain! Shop's most recent major expansion. Although, a lot of these stores they acquired are now closed. 
== Red Apple ==
In 2012, The Bargain! Shop made a new store format named Red Apple Stores. over the past decade, The Bargain! Shop has re-branded a part of their stores as Red Apple. These stores are virtually the same as The Bargain! Shop, just with different branding.
Category:Discount stores
Category:Canada
Category:Stores
Category:Retailers
Category:North America