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Most Roses stores are in somewhat remote or somewhat poorer areas. K-Mart was sort of like that, but Roses reminds me particularly of Ames, if you remember them. Their mid-sized discount stores were scattered all over rural and small-town New England. (In addition to Walmart, overexpansion killed them.)

In some ways, Walmart is constrained and limited by its business model and ubiquity. There are over 4,000 Walmart stores in America, and they all need to stock more or less the same things. That limits them to suppliers who can 1) offer rock-bottom prices, and 2) supply amounts sufficient to fill shelves and displays in thousands of stores.

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A few weeks ago I had a piece in The Bulwark on an interesting regional discount chain called Roses. It\u2019s a real throwback\u2014one of the few chains of its type to survive the expansion of Walmart throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. The closest national chain to Roses is probably K-Mart, with a grand total of three stores left in the United States. Roses has a tad under 200, and operates mostly in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic (it\u2019s based in North Carolina.)

Like many, perhaps most, discount department stores, Roses (formerly styled with a possessive apostrophe between the e and s) can trace its history back to the early twentieth century. It originated as a five-and-dime/variety store, as did many other discount department stores. (Some, like Target, started out at the opposite end of the commercial spectrum, as discount versions of \u201Creal\u201D department stores. Dayton\u2019s was the upscale parent company in Target\u2019s specific case\u2014convergent evolution, if you will.)

All of which is to say, if you have any recollection of Ames, Woolworth, Caldor, Bradlees, Zayre, or the nearly extinct Kmart itself, you already know what Roses is like. But it\u2019s notable because, with the (barely lingering) exception of Kmart, all those other stores, and dozens of others like them, are defunct. The period roughly from 1990 to 2005 was an absolute bloodbath for the discount department store world, as Walmart and Target aggressively expanded.

Cheap electric space heaters with a tiny \u201Crefurbished\u201D sticker on the box (probably a batch of returns or some such). Thick, soft area rugs made of undetermined carpet remnants that have been professionally trimmed and finished. (Every single area rug I\u2019ve seen in every other store is a thin imitation of real carpet.) Target-brand dish towels (with the labels cut in half) for a buck. Big packages of cotton rags for pennies a piece (from a manufacturer called St. Mary\u2019s, which has more presence on eBay than anywhere else online).

A certain idiosyncratic quality to the offerings, a few genuine deals, a sense that some of this stuff is a bit older-fashioned than the offerings of the bigger chains\u2014it all makes me wonder if this is what we lost. Is this what box stores were like before Walmart changed the game from regional to national, from a balance of quality and value to pure price, from real and quirky variety to the false variety of hundreds of categories of products but with just one or two options for each?

What these and other products suggested to me was that Roses had some real \u201Cproduct knowledge,\u201D and was pulling its inventory from different channels than the big national discount retailers. Channels that were more regional, more old-fashioned, more idiosyncratic. Channels that simply never stopped existing, but which are no longer actually being opened up.

The lawn and garden displays outside the store\u2014there is no garden/outdoor department here, which is a space- and cost-saving measure\u2014offered great bargains on a few tools. Cheaper than Home Depot for the same lightweight versions. Plastic lawn chairs for $10.99 too. Not bad.

There\u2019s also no real electronics department. So this is not fully comparable to Walmart or K-Mart. However, some of the now-defunct discount department stores also lacked certain departments. So while there are elements of the closeout store or variety store here, I think Roses qualifies as a \u201Ctrue\u201D discount department store.

My wife and I have been looking for an area rug for our new house. Every single place we\u2019ve looked\u2014Home Depot, Lowe\u2019s, Home Goods, At Home (the latter two even recommended by a carpet store employee)\u2014has had the same selection of thin, cheap, basically not-very-nice rugs. I\u2019ve been looking for a rug that\u2019s actually made out of carpet, with the edges professionally finished. But that\u2019s very expensive\u2014the carpet store that pointed me to At Home told me I\u2019d pay about $400 for an 8x10.

So we\u2019ve just put buying the rug on hold. But I think we\u2019re going to go buy one at Roses, because that\u2019s what that rug in the photo is! It\u2019s a properly finished carpet remnant. You can see how thick it is from the photo. Take a look at the label on one of these:

That\u2019s what I paid for my little bath rug when I started grad school, at a Big Lots. (It was well-made enough; we still have it!) My wife and I were looking recently for bath rugs at Walmart and Target. The cheapest we could find was around $10, and a lot of them were pretty large. We wanted a couple of small, cheap ones just like this. It isn\u2019t just the price; it\u2019s the product itself. And beyond this endcap, there was half an aisle of bath rugs.

There\u2019s something neat and very difficult to pinpoint about a lot of this merchandise. It\u2019s inexpensive and cheaply made, yes. But it doesn\u2019t feel as though it\u2019s been put through a corporate wringer designed to shave down every possible cost to its limit.

I pay a lot of attention to the stuff on store shelves, because I\u2019m picky about buying things. And so much stuff for sale in big chains just has this flimsy feel. Something about Roses\u2019 merchandise triggers vague memories of when stuff for sale was better.

As is sometimes the case with these kinds of pieces, I got some pushback. One, that Roses isn\u2019t a discount department store but a glorified dollar store preying on distressed communities. And two, that Art Pope, the president of its parent company Variety Wholesales, is a sort of anti-worker robber baron type.

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