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Strouss was a department store serving the U.S. states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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Industry | Retail Department Store |
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Defunct | 1986 |
Fate | Merged by the May Company with Kaufmann's |
Successor | Kaufmann's (1986-2005) Macy's (2006-present) |
Headquarters | Youngstown, Ohio |
Key people | C.J. Strouss |
Products | Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products and housewares |
Parent | May Company |
The company was founded as Strouss-Hirshberg Co. by Isaac Strouss and Bernard Hirshberg, two young Americans of Jewish descent.[1] It was long the leading department store in the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys. Under the ownership of May Department Stores, which purchased Strouss in 1947, its name was shortened to Strouss and was expanded throughout northern Ohio and western Pennsylvania under the leadership of C.J. Strouss, then president of Strouss. In 1986, May Company made a corporate decision to consolidate the Strouss division into Kaufmann's. May promptly shut down many of its former locations in 1987 in part due to the depressed economy of the Youngstown metropolitan area and a strategic decision by May Company to focus on mall-only retail locations within the Kaufmann's division.
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