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||<tablestyle="float:right;" colspan="2">'''Princess Emporium'''||
||<colspan="2">''retail chain''||
||<style="font-size:48px;line-height:100%;" colspan="2">🛒||
|| founded || 1970 ||
|| industry || princessing supplies ~-(?)-~||
|| areas served || [[Centralia]]<<BR>>[[Discordantia]] ~-(formerly)-~ ||
|| status || operating ||

'''Princess Emporium''' is a chain of retail stores specializing in "princessing supplies", whatever those are. Despite the oddly specific business model, Princess Emporium managed to build a successful enterprise in [[Centralia]], probably because there are just ''so many'' princesses in this country. [[HavenTheUnbreakable]] once described the experience of shopping at Princess Emporium as "like back to school shopping, but everything's Lisa Frank".
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== History ==

The first Princess Emporium was founded in [[Maresville]] in 1970 as a way to attract princesses to the market. The chain experienced success throughout the next two decades, expanding to 48 stores within Centralia by 1999.

=== Failed expansion into Discordantia ===

In the late 1990s, Princess Emporium announced plans to expand internationally, opening stores in the neighboring nation of [[Discordantia]]. A total of 12 stores were built and ready to open in Discordantia by 2000, but their operations were ground to a halt when [[TsarinaMalice]], dictatrix of Discordantia, saw a commercial for Princess Emporium's grand opening sales, and became enraged because she associated the title "Princess" with her rival, [[PrincessAlice]]. Malice demanded that all marketing materials and signage be recalled, destroyed, and replaced with the name "Tsarina Marketplace". The company's management complied, but the damage was done, and the newly-rebranded Tsarina Marketplace never attained success in the Discordantian market. The last four Tsarina Marketplace stores closed in March 2003.

The financial aftermath of the failed international expansion took a toll on the Princess Emporium chain, and the company filed for bankruptcy in 2006. Initially, it was announced that all stores would close, but [[PrincessAlice]] cried for 3 days over the thought of losing her favorite store, until the bankruptcy courts agreed to give Princess Emporium a couple cartoonish sacks of money to keep a few select stores in operation. Today, there are a total of 8 Princess Emporium stores left in operation, though thankfully those stores are at least profitable.

== Known Locations ==

 * [[BirdgirlingtonOutletMall]]