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| Industry | Retail Department Store |
|---|---|
| Defunct | 1986 |
| Fate | Merged by theMay Company withKaufmann's |
| Successor | Kaufmann's (1986-2005) Macy's (2006-present) |
| Headquarters | Youngstown, Ohio |
Key people | C.J. Strouss |
| Products | Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products and housewares |
| Parent | May Company |
Strouss was adepartment store serving theU.S. states ofOhio andPennsylvania.

The company was founded as Strouss-Hirshberg Co. byIsaac Strouss and Bernard Hirshberg, two young Americans ofJewish descent.[1] It was long the leadingdepartment store in theMahoning and Shenango Valleys. Under the ownership ofMay Department Stores, which purchased Strouss in 1947, its name was shortened to Strouss and was expanded throughout northern Ohio and western Pennsylvania under the leadership of C.J. Strouss, then president of Strouss. In 1986,May Company made a corporate decision to consolidate the Strouss division intoKaufmann's. May promptly shut down many of its former locations in 1987 in part due to the depressed economy of theYoungstown metropolitan area and a strategic decision byMay Company to focus on mall-only retail locations within theKaufmann's division.
Fifty-nine years ago this week when Youngstown had only a 7,000 population and a four-mile-long horse car, the two young Jewish boys opened their store.