Ben Franklin, every mention

Walmart · Acquired Jul 19, 2022 · 19 mentions

• ▶ 31:46 David Rosenthal This particular one was Ben Franklin was the brand name, like Benjamin Franklin, general store type place.
• ▶ 32:10 Ben Gilbert The shipment of the stuff that goes into the Ben Franklin stores in all the small towns.
• ▶ 34:26 David Rosenthal Now, like, well, probably you want a Ben Franklin franchise, and it just so happens we've got the perfect store for you in the little town of Newport, Arkansas.
• ▶ 34:38 David Rosenthal The current owner of the Ben Franklin franchise there wants to sell in Newport.
• ▶ 47:36 Ben Gilbert He's really merchandising, so he's really showing up on Ben Franklin's radar, on the Butler Brothers Corporation's radar, and they kind of know what he's doing at this point.
• ▶ 47:52 David Rosenthal He's by far the best performing Ben Franklin store in the country at this point.
• ▶ 49:15 David Rosenthal I say this is a saving grace, although the reality is Helen's father would have financed Sam's next venture no matter what, but sort of the saving grace for Sam's pride at least was that the landlord did buy out the value of the Ben…
• ▶ 1:06:24 David Rosenthal Well, Bud had gotten into the Ben Franklin business himself after the war in Missouri.
• ▶ 1:06:50 David Rosenthal And there's going to be a grocery store and a drug store and real estate for a big Ben Franklin store.
• ▶ 1:09:14 Ben Gilbert And are they still sourcing the inventory from Ben Franklin from Butler brothers?
• ▶ 1:09:28 David Rosenthal These were still just like much larger versions of Ben Franklin's and they were working with them to get all the inventory to them.
• ▶ 1:09:36 Ben Gilbert And they've already, at this point, they've bent so many rules with Ben Franklin, like changing the store layout and concept, and where they're going, and starting to dictate more terms, naming them on their own.
• ▶ 1:10:05 David Rosenthal They're still Ben Franklin franchises.
• ▶ 1:12:39 David Rosenthal And actually even more so, you know, self-service, there were the two Ben Franklin's in Minnesota that was doing it.
• ▶ 1:19:17 David Rosenthal If they had done this, they had all these other Ben Franklin franchises out there.
• ▶ 1:21:08 unnamed speaker You've got all these fancy names, but it's pretty expensive building the neon signs of, you know, Walton's five and dime and Ben Franklin.
• ▶ 1:24:07 unnamed speaker Walton made it clear that this wasn't just Ben Franklin with low prices on some items.
• ▶ 2:35:12 David Rosenthal Grew out of the remnants of the old variety stores, like the Ben Franklin's.
• ▶ 2:35:17 David Rosenthal Like when they got disrupted by the discounters, Butler brothers and Ben Franklin didn't survive.