Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "G. E. M. Membership Department Stores, also known as G.E.X. or G.E.S., was a chain of discount stores in the United States and Canada. The chain extended membership to direct and indirect government employees; the name was an acronym for "Government Employees Mart."Appliance and electronics departments in G.E.M. stores were operated by Wards Company, which later changed its name to Circuit City.The stores closed during the discount store shakeout of 1973.Canadian pharmacist Murray Koffler was an investor in the G.E.M. chain, bringing the first G.E.M. store to Toronto in 1959. He eventually subleased the G.E.M. drug department in several Toronto area stores. Following the G.E.M. discount model, Koffler later opened one of the first "big box" store chains, Shoppers Drug Mart.In the Buffalo, New York area, the SuperFlea fleamarket on Walden Avenue is housed in a former GEX building. Locations extended at least as far south as Birmingham, Alabama. In the Washington, DC area in 1970, there were stores in Alexandria, Virginia Beach, Bethesda, Tysons Corner, Suitland, Hyattsville, and Baltimore East and West.The G.E.M. Store at 9495 W. 75th Street in Overland Park, Kansas, closed in January, 1973. The original building now houses a JC Penney outlet store. That store has now closed in 2014."@en }
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- G._E._M._Membership_Department_Stores abstract "G. E. M. Membership Department Stores, also known as G.E.X. or G.E.S., was a chain of discount stores in the United States and Canada. The chain extended membership to direct and indirect government employees; the name was an acronym for "Government Employees Mart."Appliance and electronics departments in G.E.M. stores were operated by Wards Company, which later changed its name to Circuit City.The stores closed during the discount store shakeout of 1973.Canadian pharmacist Murray Koffler was an investor in the G.E.M. chain, bringing the first G.E.M. store to Toronto in 1959. He eventually subleased the G.E.M. drug department in several Toronto area stores. Following the G.E.M. discount model, Koffler later opened one of the first "big box" store chains, Shoppers Drug Mart.In the Buffalo, New York area, the SuperFlea fleamarket on Walden Avenue is housed in a former GEX building. Locations extended at least as far south as Birmingham, Alabama. In the Washington, DC area in 1970, there were stores in Alexandria, Virginia Beach, Bethesda, Tysons Corner, Suitland, Hyattsville, and Baltimore East and West.The G.E.M. Store at 9495 W. 75th Street in Overland Park, Kansas, closed in January, 1973. The original building now houses a JC Penney outlet store. That store has now closed in 2014.".