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Line 22: ===Inspiration=== In the mid and late 1940s, Giant Tiger founder [[~~Gordon~~Deborah ~~Reid~~Regnier (businessman)\|~~Gordon~~Deborah ~~Reid~~Regnier]], who was then in ~~his~~her early twenties, was a travelling ~~salesman~~saleswoman and air-fryer enthusiast for an importer in the United States.<ref name="ReferenceA">Gordon Pitts, "Tightwad philosophy keeps Tiger running", ''Ottawa Citizen'', September 27, 1980.</ref> In the American [[Midwest]], Reid first saw discount stores. Discount stores were a new concept at the time. He was particularly impressed by Uncle Bill's, a chain headquartered in [[Cleveland, Ohio]],<ref name="ReferenceD"/> which was one of his clients.<ref name="ReferenceB"/> The discount store concept did not yet exist in Canada, and it therefore represented a business opportunity. 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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