what was the first department store to open in the united states
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In 1857 the store moved into a five-story white marble dry goods palace known as the Marble House. During the Civil War, Arnold Constable was one of the first stores to issue charge bills of credit to its customers each month instead of on a bi-annual basis. Recognized as an emporium for high-quality fashions, the store soon outgrew the Marble House and erected a cast-iron building on Broadway and Nineteenth Street in 1869; this “Palace of Trade” expanded over the years until it was necessary to move into a larger space in 1914. In 1925, Arnold, Constable merged with Stewart
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first post-war suburban retail centers with department store anchors in the United States, situated on a parcel. The original anchors of what was then an open-air plaza of separate stores and outdoor walkways were a 3-level Halle Bros. Co., 2-level Federal's Department Store, a Kroger Supermarket, and in 1961 Federal's built a new 1 level store across the lot from Halle's and the former Federal's become the first suburban store for Higbee's Department Store. Eventually, Higbee's also took over the newer Federal Department Store space when Federal's closed in 1969 but not before Atlantic-Spartan opened in the location in 1969
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would go further there. He started tomato farming before opening a department store in 1912. His first store was located on Main Street, which is now known as Federal Highway or U.S.-1. Louis is thought to be the first known Jewish settler in Broward County. In 1915, he married Sarah Sokolow of New York. Sarah's brother, David, joined them in Dania Beach and partnered with Louis to open additional stores in Hollywood (1925) and Pompano Beach (1927).< Brown's Department Store Brown's Department Store was a chain of department stores in the United States, based in Dania Beach, Florida. The store's
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Loeb's (department store) Loeb's Inc. is an American department store based in Meridian, Mississippi. It operates an online specialty store. Loeb's was founded in 1887 by Alex Loeb as Alex Loeb, Inc. Today, Loeb's legal name is "LOEB'S, INC." Loeb's is located on Front Street, Meridian. Alex Loeb was a merchant in Meridian in the late 19th century. Loeb emigranted from Germany and moved to Meridian from Columbus, Mississippi to open his first store. Alex Loeb was the first Loeb in Meridian, brought to the United States from Germany by his brother, Simon Loeb, who preceded him in Columbus. Born
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Feldman's Department Store Feldman's Department Store, currently known as the Teal Professional Building, is a historic commercial building in Haleyville, Winston County, Alabama. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 12, 2009. Feldman's is a two-story brick building that was completed in 1911 for John Dodd. It was the first brick building, and is the oldest surviving commercial building, in Haleyville. The building was purchased by Moses Feldman in 1914. He and his wife, Fanny Royal, were both Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the United States. They purchased Dodd's building in order to open a
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Henry C. Lytton & Co. Henry C. Lytton & Co., nicknamed The Hub and Lytton's, was a department store chain headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The first store opened on State Street in 1887 and the last store closed in 1986. Henry Charles Lytton first opened a store in Ionia, Michigan, but it proved unprofitable. Later forays in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Indianapolis, Indiana provided Lytton with enough capital to open a store in the Loop of Chicago, Illinois. The store, which he nicknamed The Hub, opened in 1887 on the corner of Jackson and State Streets in the
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Jacques Minkus Jacques Minkus (December 15, 1901 – September 17, 1996), of New York City, emigrated to the United States in 1929 and established stamp counters for postage stamp collectors at numerous department stores in the United States. Minkus established his first stamp counter at Gimbels department store in Manhattan in 1931. He was successful in this method of selling stamps and continued to open stamp counters in department stores until the 1960s, when he had opened thirty eight counters. Minkus also published a stamp catalog titled "Minkus New World Wide Stamp Catalog" starting in 1955. In addition to the
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Hylan Plaza Hylan Plaza (formerly called Fox Plaza after its former anchor tenant) was an open-air shopping center in the New Dorp neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City, United States. In 2017 the majority of the plaza was demolished to make way for a new shopping center called The Boulevard set to open in Fall 2019. Hylan Plaza debuted in 1966 with the opening of a Fox Plaza, now United Artists Movie Theater, and a W.T. Grant department store, now Kmart. By 1968 a new Garber Brothers department store, now a Toys "R" Us/Babies "R" Us combination, and a
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management of the center. The shopping center has been home to the St. Therese Society of Mt. Carmel Chapel since 1960. It is one of few chapels to be located inside of a shopping center. The mall also houses the Peabody Police Department Community Outreach Center. On September 1, 2001, the Apple Store opened. The shopping center was chosen by Apple as its first store in the Northeastern United States. When the Apple Store opened, which was located by the new Nordstrom Wing, it was the 6th Apple Store to ever open in the world. On January 27, 2017, Apple
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FedMart FedMart was a chain of discount department stores started by Sol Price, who later founded Price Club. His first location in San Diego, California was in a converted airport hangar. It was originally a discount department store open to government employees, who paid a membership fee of $2 per family. FedMart's first year was highly successful. Over the next 20 years Fedmart grew to include 45 stores in a chain that generated more than $300 million in annual sales. The business expanded to several states in the Southwest United States. Many stores were previous White Front or Two Guys
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Sears, Roebuck and Company Retail Department Store-Camden The Sears, Roebuck and Company Retail Department Store Building in Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, United States, was built in 1927 and housed a Sears department store until 1971, when the store relocated to Moorestown Mall. It was South Jersey's first free-standing department store. It was also among the first department stores to be built with its own parking lot, a precursor to the modern shopping mall. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 27, 2000. After Sears relocated, the building was home at different times to a
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Julian Scott Department Store Julian Scott Department Store was located at 151 West Fort Street in downtown Detroit, Michigan. In November 2003, the store opening marked the return of luxury retailers to downtown Detroit after a 20+ year absence. Julian Scott made history as the first African-American-owned department store in the United States. Due to under-capitalization and lackluster sales, the store was forced to close its doors three weeks before its first anniversary. The 1900s era building was designed by the renowned New York architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White. The structure has a lengthy history, once housing offices
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of Peoples State Bank, Manufacturers National Bank and Silver's office supply. Julian Scott Department Store Julian Scott Department Store was located at 151 West Fort Street in downtown Detroit, Michigan. In November 2003, the store opening marked the return of luxury retailers to downtown Detroit after a 20+ year absence. Julian Scott made history as the first African-American-owned department store in the United States. Due to under-capitalization and lackluster sales, the store was forced to close its doors three weeks before its first anniversary. The 1900s era building was designed by the renowned New York architectural firm of McKim, Mead,
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itself, positioned for middle-up segment, entered in 2014 by opening its first store in Medan, followed by its second and third store in Jakarta and Yogyakarta. Lotte, meanwhile, entered the market by inking a partnership with Ciputra Group, creating what is called 'Lotte Shopping Avenue' inside the Ciputra World Jakarta complex, as well as acquiring Makro and rebranding it into Lotte Mart for hypermarket business and Lotte Grosir (previously Lotte Mart Wholesale) for wholesale business. As of 2017, Lotte Department Store is not expanding despite the company plans to open 5 more stores. AEON also inked a partnership with Sinarmas
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Wanamaker's John Wanamaker Department Store was the first department store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one of the first department stores in the United States. At its zenith in the early 20th century, Wanamaker also had a store in New York City at Broadway and Ninth Street. Both employed extremely large staffs. By the end of the 20th century, there were 16 Wanamaker's outlets, but after years of change the chain was bought by Albert Taubman, and added to his previous purchase of Woodward & Lothrop, the Washington, D.C., department store. In 1994, Woodies, as it was known, filed for bankruptcy.
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resourceful immigrants from the village of Kafarakab in Lebanon who came to the United States through Ellis Island in New York City. The senior Abrahams first lived in Amarillo but then launched in 1913 a department store called the "Fair Store" in Canadian. They lived frugally in the back of the store until 1938, when they purchased what is now the fourth-generation Abraham family home. Abraham graduated from Canadian High School when he was 14 and attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock for three years thereafter but did not graduate. With an older brother, he got involved in a variety
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Younker Brothers Department Store The Younker Brothers Department Store is a historic building located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. Younkers was founded in Keokuk, Iowa in 1856. They opened their first store in Des Moines in 1874 and moved their headquarters to Des Moines in 1879. Their flagship store moved to this location in November 1899. The original Tea Room opened in 1913 and was replaced in 1927. The building installed the first escalator in Iowa, known as the "electric stairs", in this building in 1939.
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new development, which includes apartments, restaurants and a hotel, was slated to open in late 2017, but was delayed because the building was without a permanent power source. As of August 2018, restaurant, hotel and apartment owners were expecting to be able to allow occupants by the end of the year. Kaufmann's Kaufmann's was a department store that originated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was owned in the early 20th century by Edgar J. Kaufmann, patron of 'Fallingwater'. In the post-war years, the store became a regional chain in the eastern United States, and was last owned by Federated Department Stores.
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and bought at auction a failing general goods store on Market Street, renaming it L. Bamberger & Company. The following year, he took two partners - Felix Fuld and Louis M. Frank. The store was an immediate success, and Bamberger was able to open an ornate chateauesque building in 1912 that covered a whole city block. For decades, Bamberger’s clock was the downtown meeting place for Newarkers. In 1928, the store's sales were $28 million (equivalent to $ million in 2018), making it the fourth highest grossing store in the United States. In 1929, Bamberger sold his department store to
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of stores advertise "one-stop shopping", where customers can stop just once at their store and buy everything they need or want. Most superstores are located on a single level, unlike other department stores which are often multi-leveled. Meijer is generally credited with pioneering the superstore concept in the United States. The first Meijer Superstore opened in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1962. By contrast, Walmart didn't open its first Supercenter until 1988. Superstores should not be confused with warehouse club stores, such as Sam's Club, Costco, and BJ's Wholesale Club. While many superstores are as large as some warehouse stores and
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Hudson's Hudson's, or The J.L. Hudson Company, was a retail department store chain based in Detroit, Michigan. Hudson's flagship store, on Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit (demolished October 24, 1998), was the tallest department store in the world in 1961, and, at one time, claimed to be the second-largest department store, after Macy's, in the United States, by square footage. Founded in 1881 by Joseph Lowthian Hudson, the store thrived during the record growth of Detroit and the auto industry in the first half of the 20th century. The family also founded the Hudson Motor Car Company, which eventually became
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a small marsh between the east hill and Lakeview Drive. The annual Stone Bank Firemen's Festival takes place on the evenings of the second Friday and Saturday of June. Stone Bank, Wisconsin Stone Bank (formerly Newberg) is an unincorporated community located in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, contained within the Towns of Oconomowoc and Merton, United States. Stone Bank was first settled in 1842 and had grist and saw mills. In 1858, the post office open; a blacksmith shop and grocery store also open. Churches and a cemetery were also established. The community does maintain the Stone Bank Volunteer Fire Department and
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Stone Bank, Wisconsin Stone Bank (formerly Newberg) is an unincorporated community located in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, contained within the Towns of Oconomowoc and Merton, United States. Stone Bank was first settled in 1842 and had grist and saw mills. In 1858, the post office open; a blacksmith shop and grocery store also open. Churches and a cemetery were also established. The community does maintain the Stone Bank Volunteer Fire Department and has its own kindergarten through 8th grade Stone Bank School which is a part of the Arrowhead Union School District. Stone Bank is situated about 4.5 miles northeast of
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of their cases. By the late 1990s, many malls, department stores, supermarkets, and other such retailers have adopted what is known as a "Code Adam," a movement first started by Walmart stores in the southeastern United States. A "Code Adam" is announced when a child is missing in a store or if a child is found by a store employee or customer. If the child is lost or missing, all doors will be locked and a store employee is posted at every exit, while a description of the child is generally broadcast over the intercom system. "Code Adam" as a
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then followed by Christmas presentations through the holiday season. Rituals surrounding Santa Claus such as department store visits to the "jolly old elf", and letter writing to his North Pole workshop remained intact during the post-War era. New to the mix was Santa's Workshop (one of the first theme parks in the US), and NORAD's tracking of Santa's sleigh via radar on Christmas Eve. In Cleveland, Ohio, a costumed character called Mr. Jingeling entertained shoppers annually at Halle's Department Store during the season. In 1949, one of the first theme parks in the United States, Santa's Workshop, was constructed near
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serving as a consultant, was named president of Bonwit Teller in 1938, making her the first female president of a major department store in the United States. The Odlums also retained a connection to the firm's founding family, naming Paul Bonwit's son Walter Bonwit as vice president and general manager. For a brief time in 1939-1940, the store owned radio station WHAT in Philadelphia. Floyd and Hortense Odlum would sell their investment in Bonwit Teller to Walter Hoving's Hoving Corporation. At the same time, Albert M. Greenfield's Philadelphia-based investment company Bankers Securities Corporation acquired Bonwit Teller's Philadelphia stores. With Bonwit
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retailers, he noticed that the large stores in London had not adopted the latest selling ideas that were being used in the United States. Selfridge decided to invest £400,000 in building his own department store in what was then the unfashionable western end of Oxford Street, by slowly buying up a series of Georgian architecture buildings which were on the desired block defined by the surrounding four streets: Somerset, Wigmore, Orchard and Duke. The building was designed by American architect Daniel Burnham, who was respected for his department store designs. He created Marshall Field's, Chicago, Filene's in Boston, Wanamaker's in
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was the first Japanese department store in the mainland United States. Despite much publicity, the store attracted little more than curiosity and closed after only two years. The building was later occupied by Ohrbach's and is currently home to the Petersen Automotive Museum. Seibu Department Stores The Seibu Department Stores flagship store is located in Ikebukuro. In Tokyo, there are also stores in Shibuya and Yūrakuchō. There are 16 stores in the whole country, with about 5 billion dollars in annual sales. In addition to department stores, Seibu operates the specialty stores Loft, , and Muji. The Seiyu Group are
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Roddy Burdine Roddy Bell Burdine (October 14, 1886 – February 15, 1936) was an American businessman who owned the Burdines department store chain from 1911–1936. A leading citizen of Miami, Florida in the early 20th century, Burdine was the son of William Burdine, who founded Burdines as a dry goods store in 1898. After his father's death, Burdine became the chairman of the department store, leading its expansion to become one of the biggest department stores in the United States. He built Miami's first skyscraper and created the first parking garage connected to a retail business. Burdine was born in
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of retail shopping from "Marble Palace" that was called the "Ladies' Mile". By 1894, the major stores competed in the Christmas season with elaborate Christmas window displays; in 1895 Macy's featured 13 tableaux, including scenes from "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Gulliver's Travels" and other children's favorites. In 1877, John Wanamaker opened the United States' first modern department store in a former Pennsylvania Railroad freight terminal in Philadelphia. Wanamakers was the first department store to offer fixed prices marked on every article and also introduced electrical illumination (1878), the telephone (1879), and the use of pneumatic tubes to transport cash and
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by way of Liverpool, England, they reached the United States and settled first in Fall River, Massachusetts, and finally in the wealthy Los Angeles neighborhood of Cheviot Hills. Maria Altmann's cousin, Ruth Rogers-Altmann, made it out of Vienna around the same time and settled in New York. Shortly after Maria arrived in Los Angeles, Bernhard Altmann mailed her a cashmere sweater – not yet available in the United States – accompanied with the note: "See what you can do with this." Maria took the sweater to Kerr's Department Store in Beverly Hills and attracted a multitude of buyers in California
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Kohl's Kohl's is an American department store retail chain, operated by Kohl's Corporation. With 1,158 locations, it is the largest department store chain in the United States . The company was founded by Polish immigrant Maxwell Kohl, who opened a corner grocery store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1927. Branching out from its successful grocery store chain, the company opened its first department store in 1962. British American Tobacco Company took a controlling interest in the company in 1972, and in 1979, the Kohl family left the management of the company. A group of investors purchased the company in 1986 from
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History of Walmart The history of Walmart, an American discount department store chain, began in 1950 when businessman Sam Walton purchased a store from Luther E. Harrison in Bentonville, Arkansas, and opened Walton's 5 & 10. The Walmart chain proper was founded in 1962 with a single store in Rogers, expanding outside Arkansas by 1968 and throughout the rest of the Southern United States by the 1980s, ultimately operating a store in every state of the United States, plus its first stores in Canada, by 1995. The expansion was largely fueled by new store construction, although the chains Mohr-Value and
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Stanley Korshak Stanley Korshak is an American luxury goods specialty department store in Dallas, Texas. The largest independent department store in the United States, it is located in the Uptown neighborhood in The Crescent retail complex. In 1909 Stanley Korshak opened a luxury goods store in Chicago, one of the first to offer designer women's apparel. After suffering financial problems throughout the 1980s, Dallas heiress and developer Caroline Hunt purchased the rights to the name. A new store in Dallas in the upscale Crescent development opened in 1986; the store in Chicago closed in 1990. The Dallas store was managed
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Brown's Department Store Brown's Department Store was a chain of department stores in the United States, based in Dania Beach, Florida. The store's founder, Louis Brown was born in Grodno, Russia in 1886, Louis Brown immigrated to the United States in 1907 and went to work for an uncle in Chicago. From 1909-1910, Louis lived in Jacksonville, Florida working for Charles Blum and Company, a wholesale and retail liquor dealer. In 1910, he headed off to Miami with $250 in his pocket. While at the train stop in Dania Beach, Louis decided to get off because he thought his money
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Denis Defforey and Jacques Defforey, who attended and were influenced by several seminars in the United States led by "the Pope of retail" Bernardo Trujillo. The Carrefour group was the first in Europe to open a hypermarket, a large supermarket and a department store under the same roof. They opened their first hypermarket on 15 June 1963 in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, near Paris in France. In April 1976, Carrefour launched a private label "Produits libres" (free products – "libre" meaning "free" in the sense of liberty as opposed to "gratis") line of fifty foodstuffs, including oil, biscuits (crackers and cookies), milk, and
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Famous-Barr The Famous-Barr Co. (originally Famous and Barr Co.) was a division of Macy's, Inc. (formerly Federated Department Stores). Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, in the Railway Exchange Building, it was the flagship store of The May Department Stores Company, which was acquired by Federated on August 30, 2005. On February 1, 2006, it was subsumed into the newly created Macy's Midwest division. Famous-Barr was created in 1911 through the merger of The William Barr Dry Goods Co. and previously May-owned The Famous Clothing Store. Famous-Barr was the first air conditioned department store in the United States. The store opened
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cafes, bakeries, and galleries, as well as being a central hub for the other bars and restaurants located in the surrounding neighborhoods. A large Sears department store was located in the center of the Uptown district, between Telegraph Avenue, 20th Street, and Broadway. The store closed in 2014. The building was bought by Uber and is being branded as "Uptown Station". What is commonly called "First Friday" or "Art Murmur" has given way to a vibrant art scene in Oakland which mainly centers around the Uptown District. Some of the first galleries to open in this area included 21 Grand,
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a multimillion-dollar regional empire. Under Franklin, Barker's began a period of 19 years in business. Between 1961 and 1970, Barker's would open over 11 more stores. From 1970 to 1975, Barker's would become one of the nations fastest growing retail chains in the United States, opening almost 20 stores alone in New York State. In 1976, Barkers would open up several former W.T. Grant store locations in central New York. Irving Barker remained with Franklin Stores until 1963. After years of prosperity, Barkers was on its downfall, along with several other major retailers. King's Department Stores Inc. (later renamed KDT
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architect. His first work in the field was in partnership with William Beer from 1837–40, then in 1842 he joined the firm of Joseph Trench. Within five years he was the junior partner in the firm, which became Trench and Snook, in which capacity he was the designer of the A. T. Stewart department store (1846) at 280 Broadway between Duane and Rector Streets, the first department store in America. The store was the first Anglo-Italinate style building in New York, and a significant factor in introducing that style to the United States. Its "palazzo mode – borrowed from Charles
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open their first Canadian stores in Yorkdale after Crate & Barrel revealed that their first store outside the United States would open here in 2008. Yorkdale's Nordstrom was the fourth location in Canada, opening after the locations at the Toronto Eaton Centre, Calgary's Chinook Centre and Ottawa's Rideau Centre. Yorkdale's Uniqlo store was the second of its kind in Canada when they opened in late 2016, a few months after the first Uniqlo opened at the Toronto Eaton Centre the previous September. Yorkdale's Lego Store is the second one in Canada after the first opened at Fairview Mall. Yorkdale Shopping
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Fukubukuro The concept of "fukubukuro" was invented by Ginza Matsuya Department Store in the late Meiji period and has since spread to most retailers. The custom has spread to other cultures; for example, in the Honolulu shopping center Ala Moana Center, several stores adopted in this tradition in 2004. Many Sanrio Stores in the United States often adopt this tradition as well. Depending on the business, merchants plan out what will go into these grab bags and what the selling price will be months in advance. In major department stores, grab bags are usually themed to specific departments (e.g. a
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Charlottetown Mall Charlottetown Mall was a shopping mall located in Charlotte, North Carolina, right outside what is now Charlotte center city. The first enclosed shopping mall in the Southeast, it opened in on October 28, 1959. Atlanta's Lenox Square opened two months earlier, but it was an open-air mall at first. The mall was situated on a parcel on the southeastern fringes of Charlotte's "center city" area. Rouse Company was the mall's developers. The center featured one anchor store: Bon Marché, an Asheville, North Carolina-based department store with no connection to the Seattle-based retailer of the same name. Other major
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Wanamaker had established a large chain of department stores across the United States and was one of Woolworth's heroes. Stephenson was invited to London to meet Woolworth again, and was offered the job as director of the new company, which he accepted. After the idea for the creation of British stores, Frank Woolworth had offered invitations to store managers in the United States to open up stores in the UK and had only received offers to take positions at the time of his illness in March 1909 from Fred Woolworth of the Sixth Avenue and Samuel Balfour of the 14th
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Levy's (department store) Levy's, also known as Levy Brothers, was a department store based in Tucson, Arizona, United States. It was founded in 1950 by Jewish brothers Jacob and Ben Levy, who acquired the former Myers & Bloom department store in downtown Tucson. A second Levy's was later added at El Con Mall, Tucson's oldest shopping mall, in 1960. This store was followed by one in Foothills Mall in 1983. The store at El Con Mall relocated to a different building in the mall in 1969 (the old building becoming Steinfeld’s), which changed names several times. The store was owned
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Bamberger's store has been open without interruption for the mall's entire existence. Bamberger's was rebranded as Macy's in 1986 after its corporate parent decided to rebrand its entire northeastern United States operation under its namesake marque. Ohrbach's came under new ownership and was rebranded as part of the Steinbach chain, which went out of business in 1996. The building was gutted and expanded for its new tenant Lord & Taylor, which opened in 1997. Stern's closed its doors in 2001 after its parent company, Federated Department Stores, retired the brand; the store was converted to its sister brand, Bloomingdale's, which
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The company opened its first store in the United States in New York City in May 2015, a 5,000-square-foot store in Manhattan's Flatiron District. The company also plan to open seven new locations in the United Kingdom during 2015. In November 2018, the company announced the opening of four stores in Massachusetts and plans to open 20 more locations in New England in the next few years. The CEO, Mette Maix said the format of the store is "like a treasure hunt, " by adding at least 300 random, new items each month to the store selection. As of 17
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Uptons Uptons was a department store based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The chain operated primarily in the Southeastern United States, with locations in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. The chain was closed in 1999. The first Uptons opened at Roswell Mall in Roswell, Georgia in 1985. Two stores later opened in other parts of Atlanta. In 1987, Uptons acquired 14 stores from Meyers-Arnold of Greenville, South Carolina. Thirty-seven locations of the Florida-based J. Byrons department store chain were acquired in 1996. A year later, the company moved its headquarters from Norcross (a suburb of
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announced that the store would close along with 30 other House of Frasers stores. However, on 27 September the landlord Naissance Capital Real Estate declared they were working with the House of Fraser team to keep the store open. The store is used as a set both inside and outside in the BBC series "Doctor Who". In the first episode, the store was blown up, and it has subsequently been used as the set for Rose Tyler's workplace, "Henrik's". Howells (department store) Howells is a large department store located on St Mary Street in Cardiff, Wales. The store was established
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event, St. Andrew's conducted an Open championship for professional golfers. None of the championships was officially sanctioned by a governing body for American golf, causing considerable controversy among players and organizers. Later in 1894 this led to the formation of the United States Golf Association (USGA), which became the first formal golf organization in the country. After the formation of the USGA, golf quickly became a sport of national popularity and importance. In February 1916 the Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) was established in New York City. One month earlier, the wealthy department store owner Rodman Wanamaker hosted a
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its first location outside of the greater New York area, housed on 2 floors of the former Strawbridge's flagship on Market Street in Center City Philadelphia. They also opened a location at the Sawgrass Mills in Sunrise, FL. Century 21 (department store) Century 21 Department Stores LLC is a chain of department stores in the northeastern United States, headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in 1961, by Sonny Gindi, Ralph Gindi, and Al Gindi. The original store is located at 472 86th Street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Founder Al Gindi's son, Raymond Gindi, currently serves as Century
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Century 21 (department store) Century 21 Department Stores LLC is a chain of department stores in the northeastern United States, headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in 1961, by Sonny Gindi, Ralph Gindi, and Al Gindi. The original store is located at 472 86th Street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Founder Al Gindi's son, Raymond Gindi, currently serves as Century 21's chief operating officer. The Century 21 flagship location is in Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States of America. It serves as a base for a 40-floor office tower built on top of it. The
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Woodward & Lothrop Woodward & Lothrop was a department store chain headquartered in Washington, D.C. Woodward & Lothrop was Washington, D.C.'s first department store, opening in 1887. Woodies, as it was often nicknamed, maintained stores in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Its flagship store was a fixture of the shopping district in downtown Washington, with Garfinckel's, and in the late 1990s the center of controversy over competing visions for DC's urban renewal. Samuel Walter Woodward (1848 – August 2, 1917) and Alvin Mason Lothrop (1847–1912) opened a dry goods store in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1873, and maintained several stores in the
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the modillions, and has brackets above each of the columns. The middle section cornice includes a fully pedimented gable, and is raised above a frieze panel with vine motifs around two circular panels with the dates 1868 and 1999, and a central panel bearing the legend ZCMI. The ZCMI department store was founded in 1868, and is described as the first department store in the United States. Its flagship store for many years was built in 1876 to a design by local architect William Folsom, and at first featured only the central portion of this facade, which was fashioned out
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Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department. The intended purpose of the murals was to boost the morale of the American people from the effects of the Depression. Competitions that determined commissioned works were open to all artists in the United States. division. Muralist Ross Moffett painted the mural "The First Store and Tavern" in 1939 at the U.S. Post Office in Revere. The completion in 1838 of the Eastern Railroad (later the Boston & Maine), and in 1875 of the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad, signaled the beginning of rapid population growth for
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and opened its first store Toys ‘R’ Us Metro outlet in Marine Parade. The venture was terminated in 1993 when the Metro Holdings sold its shares back to the parent company of Toys ‘R’ Us Inc. In 1993, Metro (Pte) Ltd partnered with Kmart USA to open 3 Kmart Metro stores in Marina Square, United Square and Century Square. The venture was dissolved in 1996. Metro is also the local franchisee for British high-street fashion and accessories chains Monsoon and Accessorize. In the 1990s, Metro re-entered the suburbs following Singapore's public housing trend and development to open Metro Tampines in
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AK Plaza AK Plaza () is a South Korean department store franchise owned by the Aekyung Industrial Co. Ltd. Hyung-suk Chah (채형석) began construction of the first department store on March 1991 in Guro District, Seoul. The store opened on September 10, 1993, as the Aekyung Department Store. The store had five basement floors and seven aboveground floors, with a total cost of 120 billion won (120 million US dollars). The success of the Guro store was allegedly used as the basis for opening other branches. In July 2000, Aekyung Group was chosen to open a store in Incheon International
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Thalhimers Thalhimers was a department store in the Southern United States. Based in Richmond, Virginia, the venerable chain at its peak operated dozens of stores in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and one store in Memphis, Tennessee. Thalhimer's traditions were most notable during the holiday season with visits from the sticker-distributing Snow Bear and, in later years, the arrival of Lego Land at the downtown Richmond store. William Thalhimer immigrated to the Richmond area from Germany in the early 19th century. In 1842 he opened a dry good store which his grandson, William B. Thalhimer, transformed into Richmond's first department
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outside the Atlanta area for its first new store in 1955 when a store in Knoxville Tennessee was opened. Rich's opened its first suburban store at Lenox Square in 1959, Georgia's first shopping mall. The open-air mall shared space with the other major Atlanta department store, Davison's. That same year Rich's also opened a store at Belvedere Plaza Shopping Center, a large two-level strip mall in Belvedere Park near Decatur and more recently famous for its "wigs and beepers" store. Rich's sold off its Knoxville store to Miller's when profits fell off, and refocused on its Georgia stores. Two holiday
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The company went out of business in 1986. Wieboldt's, another Chicago department store chain bought the Lytton's name as well as their remaining inventory. They had planned to relaunch Lytton's but never happened as Wieboldt's also filed for bankruptcy and subsequently went out of business in 1987. The store building is now owned and used by DePaul University and is part of the Loop Retail Historic District. Henry C. Lytton & Co. Henry C. Lytton & Co., nicknamed The Hub and Lytton's, was a department store chain headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The first store opened on State Street
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premier downtown retail location at Lexington and Howard Streets. Stewart's Department Store Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. Stewart's Department Store Stewart's Department Store, also known as the Posner Building, is a historic department store building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Catholic Relief Services is currently headquartered there. The Stewart's Department Store structure was designed in 1899 by Charles E. Cassell and is a six-story brick and terra cotta steel-framed building detailed in a highly ornate Italian Renaissance Revival style. It features an exuberant ornamental detail includes fluted Ionic and Corinthian columns, lion
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United States". Anne Kronenberg, his final campaign manager, wrote of him: "What set Harvey apart from you or me was that he was a visionary. He imagined a righteous world inside his head and then he set about to create it for real, for all of us." Milk was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. Milk was born in the New York City suburb of Woodmere, to William Milk and Minerva Karns. He was the younger son of Lithuanian Jewish parents and the grandson of Morris Milk, a department store owner who helped to organize the first
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discount outlets. By 1998, Bugle Boy was expanding into new markets in China and opening stores there. In 2001, Bugle Boy fell on hard times and closed all 215 of its United States outlet stores in an agreement with United States bankruptcy court. The store at Gurnee Mills remained open to sell off remaining inventory. Eventually, the company was sold for $68.8 million to Schottenstein Stores Corp., which has large stakes in American Eagle Outfitters and Value City Department Stores. As of 2015, the Bugle Boy brand is no longer in use. Mow married twice and has four children, two
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returned as part of the Portsmouth rebuilding programme, with a new store within the re-constructed Town centre during the 1950s. But in 1965 the store was purchased by the United Drapery Stores and subsequently in 1982 the store was converted to an Allders. The Allders store was sold in 2005 to Debenhams. Landport Drapery Bazaar Landport Drapery Bazaar was a department store located on Commercial Road, Portsmouth. In 1870 Robert E Davies, the three time Mayor of Portsmouth opened a department store on what is now called Commercial Road (previously Union Road and Landport Road). He called his new enterprise
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Auburn Mall (Massachusetts) The Auburn Mall, owned by Simon Property Group, is an enclosed shopping mall located on Route 12 in Auburn, Massachusetts, United States, near the intersection of the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90) and I-290/I-395. The mall features Macy's, and Sears as anchors. Reliant Medical Group will open its Auburn campus in the mall's third anchor space in the spring of 2018. The mall was originally built in 1971 and featured Denholm's and Sears as anchors. Denholm's was converted to Forbes & Wallace, and later to The Outlet, a Providence, Rhode Island-based department store chain. The Outlet store closed
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Herberger's G. R. Herberger's Inc. was a department store chain founded in 1927 with locations throughout the Midwestern United States. The chain was sold in the late 1990s amid growing consolidation in the department store industry, while continuing to operate as a separate nameplate and later sharing a corporate division headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with Carson's, Bergner's and other regional chains by the close of the century. The company's parent company Bon-Ton filed for bankruptcy in 2018 and liquidated. Herberger's began in Osakis, Minnesota, when G.R. "Bob" Herberger opened his first store in 1927. Herberger's was incorporated for the purpose
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red instead of blue) that was last used in Sears Canada's logo until 2004. Despite the bankruptcy of its former parent company and the closing of many stores in the United States and Canada, Sears Mexico still remains open for business. Sears (Mexico) Sears Operadora Mexico SA De CV is a department store chain located in Mexico, operating more than 75 stores all over Mexico. Sears México is operated by Grupo Carso. On February 27, 1947, the first Sears in Mexico City opened, revolutionizing the traditional systems of commercialization and massive exhibition of merchandise, establishing fixed and competitive price policies,
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It was assembled by John Hewitt with a variety of investors who purchased the six-location, Norfolk, Virginia-based Mel Jackson's Tax Service and renamed it Jackson Hewitt. For the next few years, the company grew slowly, adding a handful of additional outlets. In 1986, the same year the Internal Revenue Service first began to experiment with computerized tax filing, the company began selling franchises. By the following tax season there were 22 offices. In October 1989, the Montgomery Ward department-store chain contracted with Jackson Hewitt to open offices in 169 stores across the United States. For years, Sears a competitor of
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Barker's Discount Department Stores Barkers Discount Department Stores was a chain of discount department stores founded in May, 1957 by Irving Barker. As one of the first hard goods discounters, and with creative promotions, the initial store, in Orange, Connecticut, grew quickly with a wide variety of products for the home arranged in a supermarket style. This success spawned a second 40,000 sq. ft. location in Wallingford, Connecticut in 1960. The company was sold to Franklin Stores Corporation in 1961, and then grew quickly throughout the Northeast and South Central United States, the Caribbean, and the United States Virgin Islands.
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reopen around Minnesota, with the first store likely being in Rochester. Herberger's G. R. Herberger's Inc. was a department store chain founded in 1927 with locations throughout the Midwestern United States. The chain was sold in the late 1990s amid growing consolidation in the department store industry, while continuing to operate as a separate nameplate and later sharing a corporate division headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with Carson's, Bergner's and other regional chains by the close of the century. The company's parent company Bon-Ton filed for bankruptcy in 2018 and liquidated. Herberger's began in Osakis, Minnesota, when G.R. "Bob" Herberger opened
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continued beyond the 60’s and 70’s and in 2014 store brands represent 17% of all retail grocery sales in the United States. There are thousands of Red & White products serving as the primary store brand in independent grocery stores across the United States, but the store brand market as a whole has greatly matured. Smith Michael (S.M.) Flickinger started Red & White Corporation, the nation’s first wholesale and retail business with fully integrated distribution. In 1903, Smith Michael (S.M.) Flickinger left his job as a wholesale grocery clerk in Buffalo, NY to open Flickinger Grocery Store with his brother
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ranked as the top Philippine company in the Forbes Global 2000. In 1958, Sy's first company, Shoemart (SM), started in Carriedo, Manila. He initially focused on buying large supplies of shoes from the United States. His business expanded as he transformed his shoe store into a department store. At this point, Sy set up his second company, SM Department Store Inc., and began selling stocks to department stores. In 1978, he began buying supermarkets at the northern end of EDSA in Quezon City. During the 90s when he opened SM Megamall, his companies were listed in the Philippine Stock Exchange,
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made Smoothie-like "slush" drinks out of soda or fruit juice when frozen, was a Woodies specialty in the 1970s. Woodward & Lothrop Woodward & Lothrop was a department store chain headquartered in Washington, D.C. Woodward & Lothrop was Washington, D.C.'s first department store, opening in 1887. Woodies, as it was often nicknamed, maintained stores in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Its flagship store was a fixture of the shopping district in downtown Washington, with Garfinckel's, and in the late 1990s the center of controversy over competing visions for DC's urban renewal. Samuel Walter Woodward (1848 – August 2, 1917) and Alvin
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be the first woman in the United States who was employed in this type of position. The radio station was WGU and it was jointly owned by the "Daily News" and a Chicago department store, The Fair. It was assigned a frequency of 833 kilocycles with a transmitter power of about 100 watts. The WGU studios were at The Fair store and the station's transmitter was atop the department store. Waller showed an aptitude for radio programming when she planned the station's inaugural broadcast. Since the other Chicago radio station, KYW, was known for playing jazz, she realized she needed
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Halle Brothers Co. Halle Brothers Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, commonly referred to as Halle's, is a defunct department store chain. During most of its 91-year history Halle's focused on higher-end merchandise which it combined with personal service. The company was the first major department store in Cleveland to open a suburban branch store. After growing and moving several times, the company eventually built its main store at 1228 Euclid Avenue by 1910. Standing at 195 feet, it was the tallest department store ever constructed in the city. It was designed by New York architect Henry Bacon and was called elegant
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Stewart's Department Store Stewart's Department Store, also known as the Posner Building, is a historic department store building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Catholic Relief Services is currently headquartered there. The Stewart's Department Store structure was designed in 1899 by Charles E. Cassell and is a six-story brick and terra cotta steel-framed building detailed in a highly ornate Italian Renaissance Revival style. It features an exuberant ornamental detail includes fluted Ionic and Corinthian columns, lion heads, caryatids, wreaths, garlands, cartouches, and an elaborate bracketed cornice. This building served as the flagship store for Stewart's Baltimore operations and anchored Baltimore's
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store closed after a few months because the mechanical technology was not capable of handling the high traffic loads. This store reopened in 1939 in the same location but failed again for the same reason. The third store built in 1948 was at the corner of Poplar and Union Extended in Memphis. It was open for a little over a year and also failed for the same reason as the first two attempts. This third and final store has since been torn down. Keedoozle Keedoozle was the first fully automated grocery store in the United States, a vending machine concept
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is nearby, purchased the building for about $3.5 million, with plans to demolish it. Campbell contended that uncertainty surrounding the building impeded its development of an adjacent office park. The purchase effectively ended the ongoing legal battle to preserve the building. Demolition of the building began on June 5, 2013. It was completed on August 23, 2013. Sears, Roebuck and Company Retail Department Store-Camden The Sears, Roebuck and Company Retail Department Store Building in Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, United States, was built in 1927 and housed a Sears department store until 1971, when the store relocated to Moorestown Mall.
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Company, Inc., the fifth largest retailer in the United States, offered to buy out Dayton-Hudson, the fourth largest retailer, for $6.82 billion. The offer, which most analysts considered as insufficiently valuing the company, was rebuffed by Dayton-Hudson, saying it preferred to remain independent. Target Stores increased its store count to 736 units in 38 states with $17.8 billion in sales, and remained the company's main area of growth while the other two department store subsidiaries underperformed. The middle scale Mervyn's department store chain consisted of 300 units in 16 states, while the upscale Department Stores Division operated 26 Marshall Field's,
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parking for customers of the store. John Barnes (department store) John Barnes was a department store located on the Finchley Road in North West London. The building is now occupied by a Waitrose and flats. John Barnes was one of six founders who came up with the idea to open a department store in 1898. The founders were all prominent London retailers, with John Barnes being a director of Barkers of Kensington. However, before the store could open John Barnes, who had been the chairman of the founders board had died in a shipping accident off the coast of Guernsey
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its anchor stores, making it the first mall in the United States to include both stores in the same mall. Both JCPenney and Sears stores were relocated from previous stores in downtown Fort Myers. JCPenney's previous store downtown was located in the Langford Building, and Sears' downtown store was located across the street in the Heitman Building. The Edison Mall also notably included a Woolworth's five-and-dime store. The Tampa-based department store Maas Brothers also opened in 1965 as a third anchor in the center of the mall. This would be Maas Brothers' first store to anchor a shopping mall as
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daughters to marry Christians. Fok Hing-tong married Ma Ying-piu, an Australian-Chinese businessman who was also the founder of the Sincere Department Store, the first Chinese department store in Hong Kong. Fok accompanied Ma to Australia and returned to Hong Kong in 1894 before she convinced her husband to open the Sincere Company. When the first department store in 1900 at 172 Queen's Road Central, she also became the first modern Chinese saleswoman at a time when respectable Chinese women did not work in public. Fok was also an active social leader in Hong Kong. She joined with her sister Fok
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J. L. Turner and his son Cal Turner, Sr., opening their first department store there in 1945. In 1955, the Turners began to open more stores, and, in 1968, founded Dollar General Corporation or DOLGEN Corp. Scottsville is located at (36.751504, -86.192692). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Scottsville has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. As of the census
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building with Classical Revival style influences. It featured architectural terra cotta panels and richly detailed bronze display window surrounds. This remodeling was completed in 1926. The store operated successfully for decades, and was the first of the Allentown department stores to open a branch at the suburban Whitehall Mall in 1966. In 1970, Donald Vollmer, then president of the store, purchased Bears Department Store in York, Pennsylvania and renamed it Zollinger-Harned, becoming the third store in the then Zollinger-Harned chain. A fourth store in the Wyoming Valley Mall near Wilkes-Barre was opened in 1971. However, like many other major department
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Idaho stores in Idaho Falls and Pocatello, were sold to Dillard's. By August 2002 the stores were further consolidated within May into the company's Los Angeles, California division, Robinsons-May, though retaining the Meier & Frank nameplate. The facade of ZCMI was used in the City Creek Center, retaining the original ZCMI nameplate as a front for Macy's. ZCMI Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution (typically referred to as ZCMI) was the first department store in the United States. It was founded on October 9, 1868 by Brigham Young. For many years it used the slogan, "America's First Department Store". Even though The
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& Co. of Chicago in 1980 who paid $8 million and rebranded the chain to Halle's. Halle Brothers Co. Halle Brothers Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, commonly referred to as Halle's, is a defunct department store chain. During most of its 91-year history Halle's focused on higher-end merchandise which it combined with personal service. The company was the first major department store in Cleveland to open a suburban branch store. After growing and moving several times, the company eventually built its main store at 1228 Euclid Avenue by 1910. Standing at 195 feet, it was the tallest department store ever constructed
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first with a Bergner's department store in 1973, the first new department store to open in the city in more than thirty years. Kohl's was added a decade later. A food court was added in 1989 followed by a mall-wide renovation a year later, Sears expanded its store in 1997, and a Famous-Barr was added in November 1999, which became Macy's in 2006. On January 4, 2017, Macy's announced that it would close its store as part of a plan to close 68 stores nationwide. The store closed on March 31, 2017. After the announcement JCPenney also stated on March
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The existing lease rights were purchased by the "Target" Federated Department Store Group - much to the chagrin of the existing ownership team. El Con Center El Con Center is an open-air shopping mall in the city of Tucson, Arizona, United States anchored by Cinemark Theatres, Target, The Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Ross (30, 220 ft.), Burlington (65, 680 ft.), and J. C. Penney (106, 586 ft.). An additional anchor, Marshalls, was scheduled to open June or July 2015. The oldest mall in metropolitan Tucson, El Con Mall, as it was known since its opening in 1960, was renamed in May
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Jr. and Emil Steen took over the firm and renamed it "Steen & Strøm". Business was blooming, so the partners bought the house next door in Prinsens Gate, and in 1874 they opened a four-story department store - the first modern department store in Norway. Here, customers could find beauty articles, fashion, the latest technology, and cafés. In 1929 the building was destroyed by fire. Architect was commissioned to design a new, spacious and open building, inspired by the large department stores in Paris. In 1930 the new Steen & Strøm store opened. The shopping center, with Norway's first escalators,
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a modest open-air shopping mall anchored by JCPenney, discount department store E. J. Korvette, and an Acme "A-Frame" style supermarket. The Plaza prospered and by the late 1970s had become a partially enclosed super-regional mall anchored by department stores JCPenney, Gimbels, and Wanamaker's. The Wanamaker's store opened in 1965 in what had been an amphitheater. By the late 1970s, The Plaza consisted of a small, fully enclosed section (connecting the three department stores) and a sprawling outdoor mall (featuring Woolworth's and Acme Markets). It was around this time Kravco noticed a demand for more upscale shopping in the northwest Philadelphia
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Mall at Johnson City in Johnson City, and Bristol Mall in Bristol, Virginia. Prior to moving to the Fort Henry Mall, the Kingsport store was located at 300 Broad Street. The downtown store was purchased from J. Fred Johnson Company and the two story building contained the first escalator in Kingsport. Miller's had one Georgia location in Rome, which began as a multi-level downtown store and then moved to Rome's Riverbend Mall in 1975. Miller's ran television commercials in the early 1980s with the advertising slogan, "We know what you want...we're Miller's". Miller's Department Store Miller's Department Store was a
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same year. Shops at Rivercenter The Shops at Rivercenter (formerly Rivercenter Mall) is a shopping mall located in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, United States along the city's River Walk. It is anchored by Macy's, H&M, as well as a 38-story, 1,001-room Marriott hotel. The mall was purchased in 2005 by Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation. The landmark 1871 St. Joseph's Catholic Church did not sell to the original developers, Joske's Department Store, in 1945, and the store was built around it. The Shops at Rivercenter opened in 1988 as Rivercenter Mall, with San Antonio's first Lord & Taylor department store, an IMAX
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Shops at Rivercenter The Shops at Rivercenter (formerly Rivercenter Mall) is a shopping mall located in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, United States along the city's River Walk. It is anchored by Macy's, H&M, as well as a 38-story, 1,001-room Marriott hotel. The mall was purchased in 2005 by Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation. The landmark 1871 St. Joseph's Catholic Church did not sell to the original developers, Joske's Department Store, in 1945, and the store was built around it. The Shops at Rivercenter opened in 1988 as Rivercenter Mall, with San Antonio's first Lord & Taylor department store, an IMAX theater, as
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One South Broad One South Broad, also known as the Lincoln-Liberty Building or PNB Building, is a 28-story office tower in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The art deco tower, designed by architect John Torrey Windrim as an annex for Wanamaker's department store, was completed in 1932. Wanamaker's Men's Store opened in the first seven floors of the building, which is located a block from Wanamaker's main store, and was intended to rival European department stores with its size and selection. In 1952, the Philadelphia National Bank (PNB) bought the building and converted it into offices and banking space.
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we hope will be an unprecedented retailing concept and social mecca", also stating that they "look[ed] forward to sharing more details of these changes in the coming months." The page included an artist's conception of what the location would look like. On August 12, 2014, J&R announced that they planned to open a 1,500 square foot J&R Express store inside the flagship location of the Century 21 Department Store in Manhattan by October 2014. Twice magazine reported that the new store would have a format similar to that used by the store that was within Macy's Herald Square store and
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Bar of Arizona Supreme Court case, which upheld legal advertising as commercial speech protected by the First Amendment. Julia O’Malley-Keyes (Truman), the great granddaughter of Jane Malley and Edward Malley’s twice great granddaughter resides in the United States and is a Corporate Executive. The Edw. Malley Co. The Edw. Malley Co., often abbreviated Malley's, was a prestigious department store in Downtown New Haven, Connecticut, from 1852 to 1982. Company produced postcards promoted the establishment as "The Metropolitan Store of Connecticut". In 2007, it was ranked among the "landmark consumer paradises" of New Haven's past, along with Macy's, Shartenberg's Department Store,
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G. E. M. Membership Department Stores G. E. M. Membership Department Stores, also known as G.E.X. or G.E.S., was a chain of discount stores in the United States and Canada. The chain extended membership to direct and indirect government employees; the name was an acronym for "Government Employees Mart." Appliance and electronics departments in G.E.M. stores were operated by Wards Company, which later changed its name to Circuit City. The stores closed during the discount store shakeout of 1973. Canadian pharmacist Murray Koffler was an investor in the G.E.M. chain, bringing the first G.E.M. store to Toronto in 1959. He
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to open new locations throughout the United States. Due to its rapid rate of expansion, Duluth Trading Company saw lower revenues in 2017. There are 31 stores as of 8 December 2017, and there are plans for opening 15 more this year. The company will open its first store in the New York Metropolitan Area at The Ramsey Square Shopping Center in Ramsey NJ. For the 2018 Winter Olympics, Duluth Trading Company was chosen to be the "Official Off-Sled Outfitter" of the United States luge team by the United States Olympic Committee. Duluth Trading Company Duluth Holdings Inc., which primarily
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ZCMI Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution (typically referred to as ZCMI) was the first department store in the United States. It was founded on October 9, 1868 by Brigham Young. For many years it used the slogan, "America's First Department Store". Even though The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) had been headquartered in the Salt Lake area for some 20 years by that time, they were despised by the surrounding community, as Young had disparaged non-Mormon merchants who had engaged in price gouging on necessities, and encouraged boycotting these businesses in 1866. Mormon business owners were routinely
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still maintains a common law trademark in the use of Daytons.com and Hudsons.com, which both redirect to the Target website. Hudson's Hudson's, or The J.L. Hudson Company, was a retail department store chain based in Detroit, Michigan. Hudson's flagship store, on Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit (demolished October 24, 1998), was the tallest department store in the world in 1961, and, at one time, claimed to be the second-largest department store, after Macy's, in the United States, by square footage. Founded in 1881 by Joseph Lowthian Hudson, the store thrived during the record growth of Detroit and the auto industry
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Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is a labor union in the United States that is a semi-autonomous division of the United Food and Commercial Workers. The division represents service, clerical, sales and maintenance workers as well as employees in the citrus, food processing, tobacco, jewelry, novelty and toy industries. RWDSU was created in 1937 as the United Retail Employees of America by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Clarence Coulter, then general secretary-treasurer of the Retail Clerks International Association (RCIA), was a strong supporter of craft unionism and had suspended a number
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