Harry Gordon Selfridge introduced a whole new shopping experience, one honed in the department stores of late-19th Century America. "Just looking" was positively encouraged. 50 Things That Made ...

Do you recall those opulent department stores from ... but the latter part of the 20th century brought challenges. Competition from other discount stores and a series of management blunders ...

Like a giant department store where everything is bigger and ... the new group of historians that emerges at the end of the 19th century, early 20th century, who are vocal advocates for something ...

Northern Ireland firm Graham has begun construction work on the historic Jenners building on Princes Street, Edinburgh, to transform the location into a hotel and contemporary mixed-use space. The ...

The history of the department store dates back to the 18th Century. A postcard showing Debenham & Freebody department store in London, circa 1905 In 1778, William Clark opened a drapers store at ...

Often times, complexity can get lost amid the politicking. Here, economic history – and economic historians like me – can ...

Plans to redevelop the old Century 21 in Bay Ridge into an “urban retail landscape ... The Gindi family, who founded the now-defunct department store, have listed the lot and a collection of nearby ...

Century 21, the off-price department store chain, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Thursday and announced it would be winding down its business. Founded in 1961, the retailer has 13 stores in ...

Limited as chemical knowledge was when the nineteenth century opened ... of chemistry have been made in the past century in that department known as organic chemistry. One hundred years ago ...

The ubiquitous convenience store owed its recent revenue drops to inflation, declining cigarette sales and a shift in palates ...

Nia House, a Montessori preschool, has served low-income families since 1974 and now spends $700,000 per year on tuition subsidies. Catch up on this and other Berkeley retail and small business news.