Play It Again Sports is a chain of sporting goods stores selling new and gently used sporting goods franchised by Winmark Corporation. Minneapolis native Martha Morris started the store in 1983 soon growing to several stores. Morris sold the chain to Winmark in 1988 and franchising began growing to over 400 stores across the United States Midwest and 43 stores in Canada. All stores are independently owned and operated. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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