Boscov's is a family-owned department store with 47 locations in the eastern United States. The company chairman is Jim Boscov, who took over after his uncle Albert Boscov died from pancreatic cancer on February 10, 2017. The Boscov's flagship store is in downtown Binghamton, New York.
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History
Solomon "Sol" Boscov was of Jewish descent. He immigrated to Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1902. He had $1.37 in cash on arrival in the United States. He worked as a traveling salesman with an initial $8 worth of merchandise. Because he spoke Yiddish, he was able to converse with people in Berks County who spoke Pennsylvania Dutch. Boscov's fortunes changed in 1911 when he opened the first Boscov's store in Reading. Boscov's began expanding in the Pennsylvania suburbs during the 1960s. By 1968, Boscov's had five stores, 2,200 workers, and annual sales exceeding $50 million. Solomon Boscov retired and was succeeded by his son Albert "Albie" Boscov as head of the company in 1960. He bought Fowler, Dick and Walker, the Boston Store in 1980. One of Wilkes-Barre's last remaining downtown department stores, it was also Boscov's first multi-story store.
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Today
From October 2011 to January 2017, Boscov's opened stores at the Monmouth Mall in Eatontown, New Jersey; the White Marsh Mall in White Marsh, Maryland; the Woodbridge Center Mall in Woodbridge, New Jersey; the Ohio Valley Mall; the Westfield Meriden Mall in Meriden, Connecticut; the Sangertown Square Mall in New Hartford, New York; and the Millcreek Mall in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Albert Boscov, the son of Solomon Boscov, died from pancreatic cancer on February 10, 2017, at the age of 87.
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