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February 7, 2018
in Business, Current Affairs, Law, Science, Social Science, Technology

Hunting Mobile Shoppers

February 7, 2018
in Business, Current Affairs, Law, Science, Social Science, Technology

Joseph Turow— “Bricks and mortar is dead; long live bricks and mortar!” This was the surprising theme that emerged from the sprawling 2014 Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition, reported Laura Heller, editor in chief of the online trade magazine FierceRetail. Everybody in retail had previously been emphasizing only the tremendous advantage that

August 9, 2011
in American History, Business, Economics, Humanities, Social Science

Notes From A Native New Yorker: Shrinking Displays of the Department Store

August 9, 2011
in American History, Business, Economics, Humanities, Social Science

Michelle Stein— In The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960, Richard Longstreth documents the development of the department store as it moves from “a great, all-inclusive emporium that helped define the character and the purpose of the city” to its transformation into shopping centers and malls. Here in New York City,