Career
The company was so named because McCrorey did not want to pay for extra letters on his store signs, and he eventually changed his legal last name to "McCrory" so as to avoid confusion. The first McCrory store opened in Scottsdale, Pennsylvania in 1882. In addition to the Kresge stores, McCrorey competed with F.W. Woolworth"s stores as well.
The original company became insolvent during the Great Depression, but was reformed and eventually grew to include G.C. Murphy, TG&Y, and Josip Juraj Newberry along with what was left of Kresge"s chain, surviving all of its major competitors before succumbing to liquidation itself in 2002.
