Boskov's

Boscov's started as one man's dream and one little corner store in Reading, Pennsylvania.
For over 100 years, Boscov's great values and exemplary customer service have remained the same. We don't view you as a customer, but as our friend. It is our company's conviction and resolution that all Boscov's stores retain the same feelings of warmth, friendliness, courtesy, charm and service that Solomon Boscov put into his first store. We know we can, with your help. 
Boscov's is a family-owned department store with 50 locations in the eastern United States. The current company chairman is Jim Boscov, who took over after his uncle Albert Boscov died from pancreatic cancer on February 10, 2017. The Boscov's flagship store is currently located in downtown Binghamton, New York.
Solomon "Sol" Boscov was of Jewish descent, he immigrated to Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1902. He had $1.37 in cash on arrival in the United States. He worked as a traveling salesman with an initial $8 worth of merchandise. Because he spoke Yiddish, he was able to converse with those people in Berks County who spoke Pennsylvania Dutch. Solomon's fortunes changed in 1911 when he opened the first Boscov's store in Reading to much fanfare. With growing notoriety, Boscov's began expanding in the Pennsylvania suburbs through the 1960s. As early as 1968, Boscov's had five stores, 2,200 workers, and annual sales exceeding $50 million. Solomon Boscov retired and was succeeded by his son Albert "Albie" Boscov as head of the company in 1960.He bought "Fowler, Dick and Walker, the Boston Store" in 1980; one of Wilkes-Barre's last remaining downtown department stores, it was also Boscov's first multi-story store.