Now, decades after the fading of the department store era, many Southerners still remember these great Southern department ...

Impulse buying is another hidden expense. Online retailers use recommendations and flash offers designed to keep shoppers ...

Correction: Nephew Kenneth Lakin’s name was misspelled in the original posting and corrected March 13 @ 11:25 a.m. Department stores have been on an inexorable slide into oblivion over the last three ...

Once upon a time, Americans who lived in cities turned to multi-story retail palaces — department stores — to shop for Christmas presents. The rest of the year, they looked to those same stores to ...

circa 1918: Exterior view of Macy's department store on 34th Street and Sixth Avenue, New York City. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) There are retail giants – Macy’s, Dillard’s, ...

Once upon a time, shopping wasn’t just a task to tick off a list. It was an outing. An event. And sometimes even a ...

Today, it's easy to go on a shopping spree without leaving your couch, but it wasn't long ago that shopping was an event, and heading to a fancy department store might even require getting dressed in ...

One area of the economy that has not fully recovered from the blows it suffered during the pandemic, has been the department store. Employment at department stores is still 12% below pre-pandemic ...

A retail company started up by a former Co-op area manager after he lost his job is celebrating a milestone anniversary.

Author and historian Leslie Goddard’s fascination with department stores runs in the family. Her grandfather was a department store lifer, working first for Marshall Field’s then Carson Pirie Scott.