After a century and a half, the American department store appears to be headed toward the grave. These glittering emporia that once drew crowds with fashion shows, concerts, and lavish holiday windows ...

Before online shopping and big-box domination, department stores were the heart of the American retail experience. In the 1970s, these stores offered everything from fashion and furniture to lunch ...

Now, decades after the fading of the department store era, many Southerners still remember these great Southern department ...

Long-gone department stores like Ohrbach’s, Gimbels, E.J. Korvette, Times Square Stores and others sold us our prom dresses, our first big-boy shoes, our refrigerators, toys, TVs and riding mowers.

“Shop till you drop” did not always mean “shop till your phone drops from your trembling, bargain-hunting hand.” For a very long while, “going shopping” in Los Angeles, especially for the holidays, ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- The Wieboldt's department store chain is familiar to longtime Chicagoans, but from no time recently – the stores all shut down more than three decades ago. But the Wieboldt family ...

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 ...

The heyday is over. The question for department stores now is whether there will be a new day. Certainly, the pandemic has made that already sticky question all the more difficult to answer. But many ...

Macy’s has struggled for years against rising competition and shoppers migrating away from department stores. Now, a group of investors reportedly wants to take Macy’s private at a vulnerable moment ...

Image in the public domain from New York Illustrated (published 1877 but appears to be early 1850s). Once located at 280 Broadway between Chambers and Reade Streets in Tribeca was one of the nation’s ...