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800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. ... Remnants of this outmoded way of shopping can still be found today at dozens of locations across the nation, though most surviving general stores ...
Gray's General Store is a general store located at 4 Main Street in Adamsville, Rhode Island. Founded in 1788, it operated for almost 225 years and was reputed to be the oldest continually operating general store in the United States. [1] The store featured an old-fashioned marble soda fountain, cigar and tobacco cases, and Rhode Island ...
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
Although the first Macy's parade was a small affair held in Massachusetts on July 4, 1854, New Yorkers gathered street-side for a much larger celebration on Thanksgiving Day 70 years later, in ...
Department store buildings in the United States (1 C, 29 P) Pages in category "History of retail in the United States" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
A grocery store chain that flourished throughout Indiana and Ohio, eventually opening dozens of stores, Marsh Supermarkets filed for bankruptcy in 2017. Founded in 1931, it lasted for 88 years ...
1648-1651, 1662 (as retail) Shirokiya: Honolulu, Hawaii: Lacquer, Retail [12] [13] Founded in Tokyo, moved to the U.S. in 1958. Defunct in 2021. 1667 Seaside Inn: Kennebunkport, Maine: Hotel [8] [14] [15] 1670 Hudson's Bay Company: New York City: Retail [16] Founded in England by Royal Charter, headquartered today in Toronto and New York City ...
A general store in Rhode Island that state officials once proclaimed the oldest in the country is closing its doors after 224 years. Gray's store in the Adamsville village in Little Compton opened ...