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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

While there are rival contenders, the title of the world’s first department store belongs, perhaps, to Harding, Howell & Co’s Grand Fashionable Magazine at 89 Pall Mall in St James’s, London. Opened ...

Target, Burlington and Macy's are among the top nine of department stores in New Jersey, but the list may surprise you.