the kaufmann's chain dominated its local region, absorbing several other department stores including strouss (1986) based in youngstown, ohio; sibley's (1991) based in rochester, new york; may company ohio (1992) based in cleveland, ohio (which had merged with o'neil's (1989) in akron, ohio); and in 1995 the remnants of mccurdy's stores of rochester and hess's of allentown, pennsylvania.