GTM Stores on Chula Vista's Third Avenue stocks over 20,000 closeout items sourced from 200-plus wholesale suppliers across a 23,000-square-foot retail floor that opened in late 2017. Much of the rotating inventory arrives as closeout and overstock merchandise — including surplus from Costco Wholesale, Lands' End, and Sam's Club — creating a daily-changing product mix spanning frozen groceries, housewares, electronics, and apparel. Founded in 1980 under the name GTM Salvage, the San Diego-based company opened its first brick-and-mortar location on March 1, 1981, at Eighth and Market in downtown San Diego. The Third Avenue Village location doubles as the company's cold-chain distribution hub for frozen and refrigerated product across all GTM branches, a grocery focus that positions it alongside off-price apparel neighbors such as dd's DISCOUNTS in the area's Chula Vista shopping corridor. New truckloads cycle through the floor on a daily receiving schedule, routing closeout frozen meats, non-GMO dairy, and organic grocery lines through commercial walk-in coolers before they reach the retail shelves.