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Unimart was a discount retailer in the
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and San Diego metropolitan areas in the 1960s. Its locations variously became Two Guys,
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, and
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. Unimart was owned by Food Giant Inc. until it merged in 1967 with Vornado, the owner of Two Guys, which quickly converted Unimart stores to Two Guys. Most Two Guys locations transitioned into
FedMart FedMart was a chain of discount department stores started by Sol Price, who later founded Price Club. Originally a discount department store open to government employees paying a $2 per family membership fee, FedMart earned four times more than i ...
in the late 1970s, followed by
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in 1983. In 1967, Greater Los Angeles branches included: *Burbank *Pomona *Culver City *Manhattan Beach *Commerce *Long Beach at Los Altos Center *Alhambra *Northridge *La Mirada *Norwalk *Oxnard


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{{History of Retail in Southern California Defunct discount stores of the United States