Department Stores
With the creation of the first department stores at the end of the nineteenth century, came the inception of that most American of diversions—shopping. Though people had alway...
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Discount Stores
A discount store is a departmentalized retail operation that sells at prices substantially lower than conventional retailers. To offset the lower prices, expenses are kept down by mini...
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A minor mystery of American culture has been the public's enduring fascination with department store windows, especially at holiday time. Though computer-generated images can whoosh us to exotic vi...
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Isetan Co. and Tokyu Department Store Co. said Tuesday they have
agreed to form an alliance effective Sunday in order to integrate the...
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Hankyu Department Stores Inc. and Hanshin Department Store Ltd.
inaugurated their holding firm, H2O Retailing Corp., on Monday in
Osaka to gear up for intensifying competition in the city's b...
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Hankyu Department Stores Inc. and Hanshin Department Store Ltd.
are set to inaugurate their holding firm, H2O Retailing Corp., Monday
in Osaka to gear up for intensifying competition in the c...
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Sales at department stores in Japan slid 2.5 percent year on
year in September to 549.28 billon yen on a same-store basis for the
first decline in two months, in part because lingering summer...
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Daimaru and Matsuzakaya department stores made a new start
Monday under the umbrella of a holding company, J. Front Retailing
Co., becoming Japan's top department store group amid an accelera...
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Sales at department stores in Japan fell 0.4 percent in May from
a year earlier to 599.31 billion yen on a same-store basis for the
third straight month of year-on-year fall, an industry body...
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Sales at department stores in Japan fell in fiscal 2006,
reversing the preceding business year's rebound that interrupted an
eight-year falling streak since fiscal 1997, an industry body said...
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Sales at department stores in Japan fell 0.4 percent in May from
a year earlier to 599.31 billion yen on a same-store basis for the
third straight month of year-on-year fall, an industry body...
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Department store sales in Japan fell 0.5 percent in 2007 from
the previous year to 7.71 trillion yen on a same store basis,
extending their losing streak to 11 years, t...
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Department Stores
Discount Stores
The Wizardry of Department Store Windows
