The company, which started as a flea market in Rhode Island, hopes to open a Harrisburg store in the future.
The retailer recently opened stores in the State College, Warminster and Willow Street areas. It has plans to open stores in the Elizabethtown and Shillington areas. And it has its eye on the Harrisburg region, too.
With the expansion into central Pennsylvania, we talked to Paul Cox, Ocean State Job Lot’s director of store operations, to get the lowdown on the chain.Ocean State Job Lot was started at a flea market by two brothers, Marc and Alan Perlman, and a college roommate, Roy Dubs. They each put in $500. The first store opened in Aug. 15, 1977, in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. In 2020, sales for the chain exceeded $750 million.“Our intention is to open in Harrisburg,” Cox said.
Ocean State Job Lot has a lot “closeouts,” where the chain purchases items from large retailers or manufacturers that can’t use them anymore. The company can then turn around and sell the items at discounted prices. But Cox said that “closeouts” only make up about half of the retailer’s offerings, noting they have a lot of regular items as well.
Unlike other retailers, Ocean State Job Lot places its most popular items at the front, in what they internally call the “Power Lane.”Ocean State Job Lot’s loyalty program is known as the “Insider Club.” Members receive weekly coupons automatically loaded onto their account, get exclusive deals each week, know about closeouts first, and can return items without receipts because everything is placed in the company’s system.
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