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A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store made a dramatic appearance in the middle of the 19th century, and permanently reshaped shopping habits, and the definition ...
Mar 26, 2015 · From Victorian London to Soviet-era Moscow, department stores have changed the way we shop and influenced culture around the world, writes Jonathan Glancey.
May 14, 2020 · A nostalgic look at the state of department stores in the US in 1979, based on confidential data and personal experience. See the lists of the largest and most famous stores, their sales, profits, and unique features.
A fact-filled, illustrated website about the history of department stores created by Jan Whitaker, a social historian who has authored a book on American department stores.
May 23, 2018 · DEPARTMENT STORES have their roots in the New York City business arena of the industrial era. Their success in the mid-nineteenth century created such retailing giants as Macy's, Gimbels, Marshall Field 's in Chicago, and Neiman-Marcus in Dallas.
Department stores were the epicenter of American consumption and modernity in the late 19th and through the 20th century.
In the 1880s a movement arose that called for industrialization and outside investment in the South. The individual who became the most prominent spokesman of this movement was Henry W. Grady.
