Zody's

Hartfield-Zodys

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Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Department store, retail
Founded	June 13, 1960 (1960-06-13) in Garden Grove, California
Defunct	Template:End date and age
Fate	Bankruptcy
Headquarters	2525 Military Avenue, Rancho Park, Los Angeles, California 90064 (1981)
Area served	Arizona, California, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico
Products	Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics and housewares
Parent	Hartfield Stores/Hartfield-Zody's/HRT Industries

Hartfield-Zodys was a retail enterprise based in the United States, established in 1960. It managed the Hartfield brand specializing in women's ready-to-wear fashion in Los Angeles and operated the Zodys discount department stores from 1960 until 1986 across California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Michigan.

Hartfield's

During the 1940s, Hartfield maintained stores along Broadway—the primary shopping corridor in Los Angeles—including addresses at 545 S. Broadway and 749 S. Broadway. By 1943, the company had extended its presence to suburban areas such as Inglewood, Huntington Park, and San Pedro, targeting working- and middle-class neighborhoods. Over the subsequent decades, additional outlets were launched throughout the Los Angeles region.

Zodys

To diversify into discount department retailing, Hartfield introduced the Zodys chain with its inaugural store opening on June 13, 1960, located in Garden Grove within Central Orange County. The parent company adopted the name Hartfield-Zodys by 1962. The chain experienced swift growth, expanding to 19 stores by 1969. In 1972, it acquired Michigan-based Yankee Stores, temporarily rebranding them as Yankee-Zodys before converting all locations to Zodys. To support this expansion, a major distribution facility was inaugurated in 1969.

Nevertheless, the Michigan operations failed to meet expectations; these outlets were divested in 1974 following a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. After emerging from bankruptcy protection, Hartfield-Zodys broadened its footprint into Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. By 1979, the chain operated a total of 37 stores.

Prominent store sites included:

1. Garden Grove: 9852 Chapman Avenue (Opened 6/15/1960)
2. Redondo Beach: 1413 Hawthorne Boulevard (SR 107) (Opened 11/3/1960)
3. Long Beach: 5933 Spring Street (Opened 8/13/1961)
4. Northridge: 10201 Reseda Boulevard (Opened 10/27/1961)
5. Canoga Park: 8201 Topanga Canyon Boulevard (SR 27) (Opened 9/27/1962)
6. West Covina: 615 North Azusa Avenue (SR 39) (Opened 9/27/1962)
7. Burbank: 1000 North San Fernando Road (Opened 12/6/1962)
8. Anaheim: 120 West Orangethorpe Avenue (Opened 7/19/1967)
9. Huntington Beach: 6912 Edinger Avenue (Opened 8/10/1967)
10. Buena Park: 121 North Beach Blvd (SR 39) (Opened 11/19/1967)
11. Santa Ana: 1900 North Grand Avenue (Opened 10/20/1968)
12. Norwalk: 10901 East Imperial Highway (Opened 10/27/1968)
13. Fountain Valley: 16111 Harbor Boulevard (Opened 11/13/1968)
14. Long Beach: 2185 South Street (Opened 9/29/1968)
15. Pomona: 1444 East Holt Avenue (Opened 6/8/1969)
16. Inglewood: 3200 West Century Boulevard (Opened 8/17/1969)
17. North Hollywood: 12727 Sherman Way (Opened 10/19/1969)
18. Lynwood: 4050 Imperial Highway (Opened October 1969)
19. Fullerton: 120 East Imperial Highway (Opened 11/30/1969)
20. El Monte: 4901 Santa Anita Drive (Opened 5/10/1970)
21. Torrance: 851 West Sepulveda Boulevard (Opened 6/21/1970)
22. Ladera Heights: 4925 West Slauson Avenue (Opened August 1970)
23. Bakersfield: 4001 Ming Street (Opened 9/9/1970)
24. Riverside: 3700 North Tyler Street (Opened October 1970)
25. Downtown Los Angeles: 437 South Broadway (Opened 3/21/1971)
26. Hollywood: 5420 West Sunset Boulevard (Opened10/20/1971)
27. San Bernardino:555 West Second Street(Opened1972)
28. Alhambra:600 East Valley Boulevard(Opened9/9/1973)
29. Montebello:2441 Via Campo(Opened1974)
30. Fresno:5422 North Blackstone Avenue(Opened1974)
31. City Of Industry:151 South Hacienda Boulevard(Opened8/15/1977)
32. Pasadena:900 North Lake Avenue(Opened5/2/1978)
33. Indio:82266 Highway111(Opened9/30/1979)
34. Midtown Los Angeles :4801 Venice Boulevard(Opened10/15/1980)
35. Boyle Heights :2800 East First Street(Opened10/22/1980)
36. Vermont/Slauson :5850 South Vermont Street(Opened11/20/81)

Additional outlets were located in Oxnard, Oceanside, multiple sites in San Jose and Sunnyvale, Las Vegas, Upland, and East Riverside.

This growth strategy emphasized targeting regional discount retail markets throughout the Southwestern United States as well as segments of the Midwest.

Epilogue

Having faced bankruptcy once more by the early 1980s, the parent corporation, which had been renamed HRT Industries, initiated the shutdown of its outlets starting in 1984. By March 1986, all remaining Zodys stores in California had ceased operations, with numerous locations being sold to Federated Stores, the company behind the Ralphs supermarket brand. Several other properties were purchased by HomeClub, a retailer specializing in home improvement products.