Today, it's easy to go on a shopping spree without leaving your couch, but it wasn't long ago that shopping was an event, and heading to a fancy department store might even require getting dressed in ...

Department stores and chain stores are two different concepts. Department stores have a long history of offering a wide variety of goods for retail sale, while chain stores are retail outlets in ...

Macy’s announcement Tuesday that it will close 150 stores, or nearly a third of its total, is the result of a once-great department store industry in decades of decline. The gradual demise of the ...

circa 1918: Exterior view of Macy's department store on 34th Street and Sixth Avenue, New York City. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) There are retail giants – Macy’s, Dillard’s, ...

Correction: Nephew Kenneth Lakin’s name was misspelled in the original posting and corrected March 13 @ 11:25 a.m. Department stores have been on an inexorable slide into oblivion over the last three ...

Off-price retailers have little to fear from rapidly growing secondhand sales, though, according to research from Bank of ...

Every department store in America, from the low end to the high, has tried some way to drag the retail concept into the 21st century. It's a monumental task, considering the model was born in the ...

Author and historian Leslie Goddard’s fascination with department stores runs in the family. Her grandfather was a department store lifer, working first for Marshall Field’s then Carson Pirie Scott.

Generally considered the world’s first department store, Le Bon Marché in Paris spurred a retail revolution when it began its incredible expansion in the late 19th century. The stores that followed on ...