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Can department stores evolve enough to regain relevance? It might take more than the magic of Macy’s. The reason could be encapsulated in one sobering sentence by Macy’s CEO Tony Spring: The chain had ...
Editor's note: This story originally appeared in 2017.Herman Wilhelm Bloch left Budapest, Hungary, at the age of 17 and headed to the United States with $1 in his pocket. Bloch sold lace and linens ...
ANN ARBOR, MI — There’s been a lot of talk in Ann Arbor lately about the Kline Lot, or Kline’s lot as some call it. Named after the former Kline’s Department Store on Main Street, the nearly ...
The first South Bay History blog post I ever wrote way back in 2009 had as its subject the discount chain White Front, which opened a branch in Torrance in 1963. But Zodys discount department store ...
Lord & Taylor, America’s oldest department store chain, is making a comeback with an old logo, new owners and a new vision. The iconic company, established in 1826 and with a long history in fashion, ...
Today it houses offices — including The Post-Crescent and Appleton Area School District offices — and is known as City Center East, but the building on the 100 block of East College Avenue in downtown ...
Vacant buildings on East Whitner Street in downtown Anderson are being demolished to revitalize the area. The demolition ...
Archaeologists found 317 medieval and post-medieval skeletons at the site of a department store that is being remodeled into a university campus. This was hardly surprising, since even more ...