Department Stores Seek to Reinvent Themselves.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: March 16, 2002 | Copyright information

By Lauren Coleman-Lochner, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 16--When the first department stores appeared in the second half of the 1800s, newly mobile, newly leisured, newly moneyed Americans found an ideal outlet for their aspirations, a place where they could furnish their homes, clothe their families, and encounter the accouterments of middle-class American life, from toasters to tables to toys.

That was before stor...

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