Timeline Saturday 21 June 1879

Events on Saturday 21 June 1879 1

• 1879 F.W. Woolworth Opens First Successful Five-and-Dime Store Lancaster, Pennsylvania store launches a retail empire Frank Winfield Woolworth opened a fixed-price five-and-ten-cent store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, after an earlier attempt in Utica, New York had failed. The store's low, fixed-price model proved successful and became the template for the nationwide Woolworth chain. It helped pioneer the modern variety store and five-and-dime retail format.