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The history of retail encompasses the sale of goods and services to consumers across all cultures and time periods from ancient history to the present. [ 1 ] Commerce first took the form of bargaining between early human civilizations.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... American brands ... (41 C, 156 P) H. History of retail in the United States (3 C, 8 P) N. Retailing in New York City ...
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 ...
Macy's got its start as America's first department store before the Civil War, and with all the ups and downs of the last 160+ years, the brand still lives on today.
A History of Small Business in America (ISBN 0-8057-9824-2) (1992) Blackford, Mansel G., and K. Austin Kerr. Business Enterprise in American History (ISBN 0395351553) (1990) Blaszczyk, Regina Lee, and Philip B. Scranton, eds. Major Problems in American Business History: Documents and Essays (2006) 521 pp. Bryant, Keith L.
His retail advertisements—the first to be copyrighted beginning in 1874—were factual, and promises made in them were kept. [ citation needed ] Wanamaker guaranteed the quality of his merchandise in print, allowed his customers to return purchases for a cash refund and offered the first restaurant to be located inside a department store.
The retail industry has nowhere to go from here. It finished evolving two decades ago when Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com , introduced the final paradigm of shopping. Any future ...
Pages in category "History of retail in the United States" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .