Tiendas Kress is a Puerto Rican

Puerto Rico

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 chain of stores

Chain store

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 dedicated in particular to the sales of women's clothes. Tiendas Kress has about 50 stores countrywide in Puerto Rico. Tiendas Kress is a derivate of S. H. Kress & Co.

S. H. Kress & Co.

S. H. Kress & Co. was the trading name of a chain of "five and dime" retail department stores in the United States, which operated from 1896 to 1981....

, or Kress Stores, an American

United States

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 five and dime

Five and Dime

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 chain that existed for eighty-five years.

After being founded in the 1950s in Puerto Rico, massive expansion took place during the 1970s. The 1980s saw the arrival of the Kress Kids line and other Kress trademarks. Kress was one of the stores that opened at Plaza las Americas

Plaza Las Américas

Plaza Las Américas is a shopping mall in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico, located at the intersection of Routes 18 and 22. It is near the Roberto Clemente Coliseum, the Hiram Bithorn Stadium, and the WKAQ-TV's studios. "Plaza", as it is known to many Puerto Ricans, was the first indoor mall built...

 before the shopping center expanded into the Caribbean

Caribbean

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's largest mall in 1980.

Tiendas Kress was never affected by the economic problems that led to their parent company's demise in 1981.