602:. Employees in the Field Support Center have also volunteered over 1,000 hours to Dallas-area food banks during the annual North Texas Food Bank campaign. Rent-A-Center has also donated more than $ 1.25 million to 11 other food banks across the country since 2009. This is in addition to the grassroots hunger-relief campaign staged across Rent-A-Center's 3,000-plus U.S. stores throughout the month of September. Originally dubbed "Soup to Nuts", now "Fill the Fridge", this effort supports Hunger Action Month. This virtual food drive leverages Rent-A-Center's stores as collection points for cash donations. The donated funds are distributed to food banks across the U.S. and Puerto Rico at the conclusion of the month-long campaign.
504:. In May 2004, Rent-A-Center completed the acquisitions of Rainbow Rentals, Inc. and Rent Rite, Inc. Rent-A-Center completed its acquisition of competitor Rent-Way, Inc. on 15 November 2006, for a price of approximately $ 600.3 million. At the time of the acquisition, Rent-Way was ranked number three in the rent-to-own industry with 782 stores in 34 states. The Rent-Way store acquisition program brought the store total to 3,535 stores. Given that the acquisition resulted in over-penetration in some markets, Rent-A-Center carried out the closing or merging of 282 stores between 2007 and 2009. With 123 Mexico stores as of December 2019, Rent-A-Center is continuing its expansion in Mexico.
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children of customers and coworkers. Since 2004, Rent-A-Center has awarded more than $ 850,000 in scholarships to college students. Through the Random Acts of Caring initiative, which was launched in 2008, RAC has donated merchandise and funding to charitable organizations located in communities where Rent-A-Center maintains retail locations. Ninety-eight Random Acts of Caring have taken place since 2008, totaling $ 531,300 in contributions. Since 2007, the company has contributed over $ 600,000 in grants to
560:. As part of their rent-to-own business model, Rent-A-Center generally makes its items available with small initial payments and no long term obligations. Customers can return an item at any time, for any reason, without penalty and also have the option to re-rent the same item and pick up the payments where they left off. Delivery, pick-up, service and repair are also included in the stated rental price. Customers can also upgrade items while they are renting—the payments will change accordingly.
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during the 1960s when he told customers of his store, Mr. T's Rental, that they had rented a washer and dryer for a long enough duration that they had paid for it in full and now owned it. Thomas Devlin, a former employee of Mr. T's rental, recognized the potential of renting name-brand products and
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locations, in which each club selects $ 5,000 worth of new furniture, electronics and computers for their room. Rent-A-Center also contributed to Boys and Girls Clubs of
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stock exchange in 1995 under the symbol "RCII". In August 1998, Renters Choice acquired Thorn
Americas, Inc., which operated 1,474 stores in 49 states and the District of Columbia under the name "Rent-A-Center". On 31 December 1998, Renters Choice changed its name to Rent-A-Center, Inc. and began
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America's first franchisor of independently owned-and-operated rent-to-own stores. Its franchisees operate 162 rent-to-own stores in 31 states under the Rent-A-Center and ColorTyme brand names, and the company's wheels-and-tires franchise brand, RimTyme, operates 31 stores in 13 states.
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credit sale outlets after a judicial decision held that the state's consumer protection laws defining credit sales included rent-to-own businesses. Rent-A-Center is also known as
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Another prominent case in 2010 included Rent-A-Center vs. Jackson which arose out of an employment discrimination claim brought on by former RAC employee Antonio Jackson. The case went all the way to the
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