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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Hendrickson |
ISBN: | 0812860926 9780812860924 |
OCLC Number: | 11476450 |
Notes: | "A Scarborough book." Includes index. |
Description: | viii, 488 pages, 40 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | From peddlers to grand emporiums -- The founding fathers -- Minding the store: early operations, from floorwalkers, drummers, and cash children to pneumatic tubes -- The big stores: stories of famous full-line department stores and how they grew -- For the mass with class: the high-fashion or specialty department stores -- Everybody loves a bargain: from shlock shops to discount department stores -- Hurry, hurry, hurry ... send no money ... satisfaction guaranteed: the mail-order department stores -- The urge to merge and "The chain store menace": American chain store development -- The malling of Main Street: suburban and city shopping centers -- Does Macy's tell Gimbels: ads, displays, dummies, parades, santas, reindeer and all manner of promotions past and present -- Rip-offs in wonderland: boosters, snitches, con artists, errant Easter bunnies and peeping toms -- Workers in paradise and the Great American customer: including strikes, unions, credit cards, and many unhappy returns of the day -- More great American stores -- past, present, and future -- The Great American department store pages of superlatives -- An honor roll of other notable department stores. |
Responsibility: | Robert Hendrickson. |
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