James Wichert, owner and president of Teen Discount Zone started in the discount retail industry in 1992 when he opened his first Dollar Store in Las Vegas, Nevada. He quickly began to receive inquiries from customers and tourists inquiring about assisting them in opening stores throughout the United States. This became the beginning of the store development business.

The Dollar Store development business has grown to over 1,900 stores worldwide. In 1995 Wichert incorporated the business and named the corporation Dollar Store Services, Inc. (www.dollarstoreservices.com).

Wichert is now taking the network of resources his company has developed over many years and is putting it to work in the Teen Discount Zone concept. The same operating procedures, care, concern, and professional staff that made Dollar Store Services the largest developer of dollar stores in North America is now dedicated to the Teen Discount Zone concept.

Wichert fully understands that each function we perform in the development business is critical to the store’s success; from financing assistance, site location, lease negotiation, store buildout, merchandising, training, and long term customer service; each function must be performed timely and professionally.

He also understands that a constant stream of new hot, exciting high profit merchandise is extremely important and is the reason why our staff of Merchandise Buyers travel regularly to hand select the highest value product. Hand selecting products means traveling, meeting with wholesalers, seeing & touching the products; then and only then can the best price be negotiated.