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===Inspiration===
In the mid and late 1940s, Giant Tiger founder [[
Reid reports that he was also inspired by [[Frank Winfield Woolworth|Frank Woolworth’s]] continent-wide success, half a century earlier, in creating hundreds of profitable [[Five and dime#North America|Five-and-Dime]] stores. Reid’s own retail experience, dating back to his first job as a teenager, had been in [[department stores]] rather than in discount,<ref>"Profiting from the bargain basement," in ''The Enterpriser'', (Ottawa), vol. 4, no. 5 (1981).</ref> but his mother had worked behind the luncheon counter at a [[F. W. Woolworth Company|Woolworth’s]] in [[Downtown Montreal|downtown]] [[Montreal]].<ref name="ReferenceC">Vito Pilieci, "New CEO grabs Tiger by the tail", ''Ottawa Citizen'', October 15, 2010.</ref>
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