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The rise and fall of Philadelphia’s great department stores

There was a time when going downtown in Philadelphia meant something special. Long before online shopping and suburban malls transformed American retail, Market Street was the center of Philadelphia’s ...
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From Main Street to mall : the rise and fall of the American department store / Vicki Howard

Overview: The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introducing light, color, and music to dry-goods ...
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The rise and fall of Amazon’s homegrown stores: A decade of retail experiments comes full circle

The original Amazon Books store in Seattle’s University Village, before it closed in 2022. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) In November 2015, an intrepid GeekWire photographer attached a camera ...