About twenty years ago, Olgur Celikbas attended a conference on algebra in Turkey. He and his then girlfriend, Ela Özçağlar, had recently graduated from college in Ankara; both had studied math. At ...

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 ...

They’re all gone now, those great Twin Cities department-store names: Donaldson’s and Dayton’s, Schuneman’s and Golden Rule, Field-Schlick and the Emporium. And Powers Department Store. Powers was ...

In 1990, Macy's was hardly the chain it is today. That year, four of the top 10 U.S. retailers on McKinsey & Company's list were department store companies, but Macy’s wasn’t one of them. Early in the ...

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JACKSON, MI - Long before the term "Black Friday" existed, shoppers looked forward to the holiday sales at a venerable department store that provided gifts and more to Jackson for 122 years. Field's ...