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The Merc

525 State Street

Picture taken from postcard dated October 13, 1970

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Advertisement
-Sheets, Cases, Bedspreads, Blankets, Window Curtains, Towels

From Weiser American – January 5, 1953

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Timeline of the building located at State & West Main:

Herman Haas Hardware & Implement – 1906
Wulff Hardware and Implement – 1928
C.C. Anderson’s Dept. Store – 1944
The Merc – 1949
People’s Furniture – 1988

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Weiser – 1944

Weiser Store Opens In New Location

(The Statesman Idaho Wire) WEISER — Stanford’s Variety Store will open in its new quarters on State Street today. The work of remodeling two rooms, converted into one, was finished Friday afternoon, but the task of moving merchandise was in progress before the carpenters and decorators had put the finishing touches on their work.

The variety store had been located for several years in a room of the Wulff Hardware and Implement company block. The hardware company has been purchased by C.C. Anderson company, which will use the place vacated by Stanford’s for one of its own departments.

From The Idaho Statesman – Sat, Sep 2, 1944 – Page 6

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Weiser – 1944

October 7: Washington County scored over 100 per cent in war loan drive.

October 14: C.C. Anderson company bought Wulff Hardware and Implement company.

October 17: Lloyd Northam, Weiser mortician and business man, died.

October 28: Community canning project scheduled for Weiser. Will take over N.Y.A. buildings.

October 30: Lt. John Lloyd, son of Mr. and Mrs. F.B. Lloyd, accorded outstanding recognition in an issue of the Persian Gulf edition of “Yank.”

From Idaho Statesman – Tuesday, January 4, 1944

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Weiser -1949

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Henry C. Fleenor, grandson of founder C.C. Anderson, announced Saturday that he has purchased five C.C. Anderson company stores in Idaho and Oregon.

The stores are located at McCall, Cascade, Parma, and Payette, Idaho, and Vale, Ore. (Weiser store was added in 1952)

Fleenor has formed a firm, known as Mercantile Stores Company, to direct the general operation of the establishments. However, he emphasized each of the stores will be operated as local ventures.

Fleenor recently resigned as an officer and director of C.C. Anderson Stores company after a 19-year association. He will serve as president of Mercantile Stores, which has been capitalized at $250,000. Fleenor stated that his firm was wholly owned by Idaho residents and has no affiliation or financial connection with any other organization.

Other officers of the new merchandising firm include Newcomb McCall, vice-president; M. Anchustegui, secretary-treasurer, and four other directors whose names were not disclosed.

A headquarters coordinating service office for the stores has been established at 405 South Eighth street, Boise.

Fleenor said that McCall, who also was formerly associated with the Anderson organization, will be manager of the McCall Mercantile company. Robert Gardner will manage the Cascade Mercantile company; Mark D. Ankeny, manager of the Parma Mercantile company; Donald Fisher, store manager at the Vale Mercantile company, and Max Leslie, acting manager at the Payette Mercantile company.

Fleenor reported that the stores were originally founded by C.C. Anderson of Boise, and all have been in operation for many years.

A two-day meeting of store managers was held in Boise recently to complete spring buying plans.

From Idaho Stateman, Sun, Dec. 11, 1949

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Weiser -1952

Idaho Concern Purchases Six Branch Stores

Mercantile Executive Announces Transfer Of Anderson Outlets

Henry C. Fleenor, president of the Mercantile Stores company, announced Thursday night that his company had purchased six C.C. Anderson branch stores in Idaho and Oregon.

They are at Mountain Home, Glenns Ferry, Gooding, Buhl, and Weiser, Idaho, and Ontario, Ore.

The purchase price was not disclosed.

Fleenor said Mercantile Stores company is wholly owned and locally operated by Idaho residents and has no connections with any other retail organization.

Other stores in the group are located at McCall, Cascade, Payette, Parma, and Hailey, Idaho, and Vale, Ore.

“Each store is individually merchandised to meet the needs of its own local communities,” Fleenor said, “and each store manager is set up on a stock participating plan on the store he operates.”

From Idaho Statesman – Friday, February 1, 1952

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Weiser -1987

Idaho Statesman – Sunday, Dec. 6th, 1987
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MERIDIAN (AP) — The Merc store in Meridian will sell its stock and fixtures and close its doors by Saturday, said Roger Fleenor, president of the Mercantile Stores Co. The only remaining store in the chain then will be at the Blue Lakes Mall in Twin Falls. And that will be gone within the year, Fleenor said. “That will end The Merc chain and we will make a final liquidating dividend to our shareholders,” he said. “The company will dissolve at that point.” The company is privately held and has 121 stockholders, he said.

Fleenor is not bitter about the events that have brought the curtain down on the 38-year-old chain founded by his grandfather. “We’re converting our assets to cash,” he said. The restructuring of The Merc chain has been under way for more than three years, but stores have been sold and closed even more rapidly than Fleenor expected. “When you’re operating a business, everything is always for sale, and when someone comes in with the right price, you do it.” He also attributed The Merc’s pending extinction to a slow economy and basic changes in the retail business. It is the story of “the demise of the middle-sized companies and middle-sized stores and the growth of the large mass merchandisers and well-organized, small, specialty stores,” Fleenor said. “Some have gone quietly and some have gone kicking. We’ve gone profitably.”

At its largest, in 1981, the Boise-based chain had 21 stores in Idaho and eastern Oregon. Changes were planned in 1984 and put into action the next year when stores were closed in Payette, Burley, Idaho Falls and Buhl. In 1986 stores were closed or sold in Baker and Ontario, Ore., Boise, Nampa and Weiser. This year the Blackfoot store closed and the Cascade store was sold to a local owner. The Hailey, McCall, Mountain Home and Riggins stores were sold to Paul’s Markets in September.

From The Times News – Friday, November 13 1987

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