The great merchants;: America's foremost retail institutions and the people who made them great

The great merchants;: America's foremost retail institutions and the people who made them great by Mahoney, Tom. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780060127398.

Peddlers to palaces: the evolution of American retailing -- The Hudsons Bay Company: resurgence of the oldest retailer -- Brooks Brothers: Americas oldest mens apparel store -- Tiffanys: the most famous jewelry store -- The Singer Company: worldwide pioneer of installment selling -- Filenes: the worlds largest specialty store -- F. & R. Lazarus Company: Ohios famous department-store dynasty -- Marshall Field & Company: elegance for the Middle West -- Brentanos: "Booksellers to the world" -- R. H. Macy & Co., Inc.: the Straus family and the worlds largest store -- The food giants: A & P, Safeway, and their rivals -- Richs: "the store that married a city" -- F.W. Woolworth Co.: "worlds greatest variety chain" -- Daytons and Hudsons: the giants of Minneapolis and Detroit -- Sears, Roebuck and Co.: the worlds biggest retailer -- Lane Bryant: maternity and special-size fashion pioneer -- J. C. Penney Company: from Main Street to shopping centers -- Broadway-Hale: colossus of the West -- Neiman-Marcus: the pride of Texas -- Bergdorf Goodman: opulence on the plaza -- Bullocks and I. Magnin: Californias glamour pioneers -- L. L. Bean, Inc.: sporting goods by mail from Maine -- Ohrbachs, Inc.: "a business in millions, a profit in pennies" -- Webbs City: "the worlds most unusual drug store" -- The discounters arrive: Korvettes, K-Mart, and their rivals -- Retailing in the future: some predictions for 2000 and later.