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Thrifty Years: The Life of Hendrik Meijer
Thrifty Years The Life of Hendrik Meijer Author:Hank Meijer The life of Hendrik Meijer is no Horatio Alger story. He came to Holland, Michigan, from his native Netherlands in 1907, a twenty-three-year-old factory worker with a high disdain for capitalism and a restless ambition to make his own way. Thrifty Years tells the unlikely story of that rebel in wooden shoes who opened a grocery store du... more »ring the Great Depression and, in embracing the capitalism he once scorned, eventually founded a hugely successful chain that represented a new form of mass merchandising -- a hybrid of supermarket and discount department store called Meijer Thrifty Acres.« less