There is some debate about what the first department store was, but the BBC awarded that title to Harding, Howell & Co's Grand Fashionable Magazine in London, which opened in 1796. At first, the shop ...
The shop expanded over the years before its founder opened a department store, just before the turn of the century, on the site where Atkinsons still stands today. It has survived two world wars, even ...
That sense of joy around Christmas." Now, as some high-end department stores close and others struggle to adapt to shoppers' changing habits, residents such as Jones are wondering: Are big holiday ...
Century-old department store Nordstrom has agreed to be acquired and taken private by Nordstrom family members and a Mexican retail group in a $6.25 billion deal with the industry being squeezed by di ...