The grand emporiums : the illustrated history of America's great department stores /

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Main Author: Hendrickson, Robert, 1933-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Stein and Day, [1979]
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300 |a viii, 488 pages, 40 unnumbered leaves of plates :  |b illustrations ;  |c 25 cm 
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500 |a Includes index. 
505 0 |a Roots: ancestors of the great department stores -- From peddlers to grand emporiums -- Department stores from past to present -- 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 schlock 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 -- A galaxy of grand emporiums -- More great American stores -- past, present, and future -- The great American department store pages of superlatives -- An honor roll of other notable department stores. 
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