Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already this new frontier in American retailing is threatening to change the merchandising and shopping habits of all the larger metropolitan areas. In Los Angeles last year only a third of the area's department store volume was accounted for in downtown stores. Framingham's now Shoppers' World is typical of the retailers rush for the suburbs, and is typical of the markets gradual change in tactics to meet a change in American way of living...
...planners into the future have been all too few. No branch department store has yet proved too large. The retail world is already full of men who have built too small. Sentiment runs today that 150,000 feet is the absolute minimum for a full-line suburban department store, and some go as high as demanding 300,000 feet to do the right...
Money Back. The store was founded by Joseph Lothian Hudson* in 1881 in a corner of the old Detroit Opera House. At first, it sold only men's and boys' clothing, but soon moved into larger quarters and expanded its line to almost everything except autos. When J.L., a bachelor, died in 1912, he left the business to his nephews, the Webber boys-Richard H. (now chairman), Oscar (president), James B. and Joseph L. (both merchandising directors...
...Hudson's can supply. A staff of 48 interior decorators helps shoppers pick furnishings and (for a modest fee) makes home calls to advise on such things as wallpaper and floor plans for furniture. To lure shoppers off the ground floor, the Webbers spotted four restaurants through the store, where 8,900 customers are served daily...
Rash Venture. In Santa Rosa, Calif., Store Executive Charles DeMore good-naturedly helped Boy Scout Troop 25 set up a camping scene exhibit in his display window as part of a citywide contest, spent the next two days in bed nursing a head-to-toe poison-oak rash, learned that the exhibit had won the first prize for, among other things, "realism...