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Out of the Box 15
Let's Go Shopping

See if you can identify these companies and stores that either are or were once were nationally prominent.  Each has a clue and the company's initials. 


Here's a sample:

Roundabout metropolitan journey:  CC

Circuit City




Shakin Bacon:  PW

Playthings identity:  TRU

Domicile Station:  HD

Better than better purchase:  BB

No nights out:  DI

Sheep's Value:  W

Construction Quadrilateral:  BS

July 4th accommodations:  HI

Charred venison:  S & R

Alabama guardians:  MW

Painful vehicle bailment:  HR a C

Super small, hardly hard:  M


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