I am doing some writing and need some help. Possibly some of our American readers can provide me with some information. I need the names of a few retail businesses that have unusual names that appear to have nothing to do with the business that they are doing.
I will give you an example from here in Canada: Canadian Tire Corporation and London Drugs. While Canadian Tire does sell tires and started out only selling tires, they now concentrate on retail sporting goods, hardware, tools, house wares, work clothing, gardening supplies and garden plants, auto parts and auto repairs. London Drugs sells the usual drug store things but also sells software, computers, home electronics such as TVs. I am sure there are others but they don't come to mind.
What I am looking for are US based retailers that have similar business models that bare little or no relationship to their business name. I am sure that when someone gives me the name(s) I will think "I know that company, why didn't I think of that". Can you help?