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Ocean State Job Lot 
Type Private Genre Liquidation, Closeouts Founded 1977 Founder(s) Roy Dubs, Marc Perlman, Alan Perlman Headquarters North Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States Number of locations 104 Locations Area served New England, Upstate New York Website Official Homepage Ocean State Job Lot, headquartered in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, is an American chain of 100 discount stores operating in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and Upstate New York. The chain takes its name from Rhode Island's nickname, "The Ocean State".
The chain primarily acquires common brand-name goods whose manufacturer is willing to sell them at a loss following overstocking or discontinuation, serving as a close-out company similar to Big Lots and Christmas Tree Shops. Ocean State Job Lot also has many new items (not close-out/overstocked products) that they use to fill their shelves, that they stock on a regular basis.
Ocean State Job Lot prefers to lease buildings where previous supermarket or discount stores used to be. They also prefer to use the previous store's fixtures (checkout counters, checkout lane number lights, etc.) wherever possible to cut costs. Within the past several years, Ocean State Job Lot has moved into many former Ames locations.
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Categories:- Companies based in Rhode Island
- Discount stores of the United States
- North Kingstown, Rhode Island
- Washington County, Rhode Island
- Retail company stubs
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