Shopper's City was a chain of seven stores in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area in the 1960s and 1970s. It was one of the forerunners of the "big box" store. The chain was notable for being one of the first stores in Minnesota to open on Sundays. It included discount groceries, home goods and sundries

Sundries

Sundries may refer to:* Toiletries and other usually small items both of no large value, and too numerous to mention separately such as cosmetics, threads, needles et cetera...

 along with a barber shop

Barber

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, pharmacy

Pharmacy

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, dry cleaners and snack bar

Snack bar

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; it also featured a furniture and appliance department on the mezzanine, at one time run by the Furniture Barn. It was sold to the larger Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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-based chain Zayre

Zayre

Zayre was a chain of discount stores that operated in the Northeastern, Southern and Midwestern United States from 1956 to 1990. The company's headquarters was in Framingham, Massachusetts. In 1988, the Zayre department stores were sold to the parent company of the competing Ames chain, and Zayre's...

in 1967 and the Zayre locations in the Twin Cities market were thereafter known as "Zayre Shopper's City."