Department StoresMacy'sMost items bought online can be returned or exchanged at any of Macy's brick & mortar stores. At this time, Macy's ships to addresses in the Unites States, APO's, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Marshall Islands, Palau, US Virgin Islands, and Guam. Rowland Hussey Macy founded Macy's in 1858 as a small, fancy dry goods store on the corner of 14th Street and 6th Avenue in New York City. In November, 1902, the store moved uptown to its present Herald Square location on Broadway and 34th Street. With the store's 7th Avenue expansion complete in 1924, Macy's Herald Square became the "World's Largest Store," with over one million square feet of retail space. By November 2003, there were 248 Macy's stores in twenty-one states, Puerto Rico and Guam. Amazon.com and their associated merchants, in addition to books, carry all kinds of home and personal electronics, DVDs & CDs, tools & hardware, sporting goods, practically everything. You can use the Amazon search form to search any of their fine departments. Wal-Mart Sears customers can shop everything from clothing, sporting goods, home fashions, and entertainment, to lawn and garden, toys, fitness gear, appliances, and tools. At Sears you will find popular clothing brands such as Lands' End, Levi's, and Structure and great bed and bath brands such as Martex, Utica, and Colormate. Sears is also well known for their own Craftsman®, Kenmore, and DieHard. Their guarantee (see website for details): "If for any reason you are not satisfied, within 90 days of receiving your order--30 days for home electronics items--return your merchandise to us for a full credit." Most purchases made online can be returned to any full-line Sears store. Many items purchased online can also be picked up at your local Sears store, with no shipping charges. In the late 1800s, Richard Sears was an agent of the Minneapolis and St. Louis railway station in North Redwood, Minnesota. Sears sold lumber and coal to local residents on the side to make extra money. Later, Sears purchased a shipment of watches unwanted by a neighboring Redwood Falls jeweler, sold the watches at a nice profit, and then ordered more for resale. In 1886 moved his new business to Minneapolis, and in 1887 he moved to Chicago and hired a watchmaker named Alvah C. Roebuck. In 1893 the name of the firm became Sears, Roebuck and Co. With revenues in 2004 of $36.1 billion, Sears now offers its wide range of home merchandise, apparel and automotive products and services through more than 2,400 Sears-branded and affiliated stores in the U.S. and Canada, which includes approximately 870 full-line and 1,100 specialty stores in the U.S. Kmart ships to all 48 contiguous United States (and the District of Columbia) via UPS (not to PO Boxes). Their guarantee (see website for details): "If you're not completely thrilled with something you buy on www.kmart.com, you have 90 days to return it by mail or to your nearest Kmart store." Sebastian Kresge opened a modest five-and-dime store in downtown Detroit in 1899. The low prices appealed to shoppers and allowed him to expand to 85 stores in 1912. S.S. Kresge Company opened the first Kmart discount department store opened in 1962 in Garden City, Michigan. Just four years later in 1966, sales in 162 Kmart stores and 753 Kresge stores topped the $1 billion mark. In 1977, nearly 95 percent of company sales were generated by Kmart stores, and the company officially changed its name to Kmart Corporation. Since 2005, Sears Holdings Corporation, with approximately $55 billion in annual revenues, has been the parent of both Kmart and Sears, Roebuck & Co. Kmart now operates 1,479 brick and mortar Kmart and Kmart Super Center retail outlets. Montgomery Ward In Chicago, Illinois, in 1872, Aaron Montgomery Ward established the first mail-order business with an innovative single-sheet catalog offering 163 items. By 1904, the catalogs weighed a hefty four pounds each and were mailed to three million customers. Hudson Bay Company (Canada), Canada's largest retailer (over 580 locations), combines several Canadian shops in their online store: The Bay, Zellers, and Home Outfitters. The Bay carries fashion, beauty and household goods; Zellers is a complete discount department store including clothing, furniture, household goods, electronics, etc.; and Home Outfitters sells furniture, small apppliances, kitchen & dining, and bed & bath goods. Gift ShopsThe Sharper Image is a general store full of gadget-oriented gifts, including cameras, electronics, music, luggage, housewares, binoculars, watches, and more..Brookstone Fingerhut In business since 1951, Taylor Gifts TicketsStub HubTickets Now Greeting Cards, Seasonal ProductsHallmarkFlower DeliveryOn August 18, 1910, fifteen American retail florists agreed to exchange orders for out-of-town deliveries. Originally called Florists' Telegraph Delivery, FTD was the world's first flowers-by-wire service. Fifty-five years later, FTD expanded to include international transactions. The company was renamed Florists Transworld Delivery to reflect its growing worldwide presence. In 1914, FTD adopted the classic figure of Mercury as its official logo.FTD is the largest floral company in the world. The leader in quality, artistry and dependability, FTD connects approximately 20,000 North American retail florists and supports an international floral delivery network of 50,000 affiliated FTD Florists in 154 countries. Floweria offers 30% to 70% off the largest assortment of roses, lilies, premium bouquets, and plants, fresh direct from the grower, plus related gifts for all ocassions. All of their flower selections are shipped direct from their own greenhouses via overnight delivery service. Each order is securely packaged in attractive, insulated gift boxes to ensure that only the freshest possible product arrives at its destination. They ship to the US (including Alaska and Hawaii) and Canada. Orders are only delivered Tuesday through Saturday. Not available to P.O. Boxes and APO/FPO addresses. 1 Stop Florists, sells roses, cut flowers, flower arrangements, plants, and gifts that are delivered anywhere from the finest flower shops around the US. Flowers Whisper, Florist.com Gift BasketsHickory Farms is a famous and reliable provider of the finest quality food gifts you know will be appreciated.Figis The Wisconsin Cheeseman Delightful Deliveries GiftBaskets.com delivers gift baskets for all occasions, including birthdays, anniversaries, new arrivals, corporate gifts, thank you's, weddings, parties, sympathy, any occasion! Gift CertificatesSuperCertificates from GiftCertificates.comTravel GiftsThe Samsonite Company Store sells the full range of luggage, cases, bags, backpacks, and travel accessories that feature the brand's legendary durability. They have numerous items on sale every day.eBags, Founded in 1989, Magellan's provides travelers with a single source of state-of-the-art, quality travel products, including baggage, maps, clothing, translators & converters, and more. The Washington Post says Magellan's carries "the widest selection of travel accessories currently available from a single source." TravelTools Special & Specialized GiftsA.T. CrossiRobot sells six different models of the famous Roomba vacuum cleaner robot, plus the Scooba floor washing robot. A living gift, starting at under $30. Treegivers Sierra Club HansonEllis The New Bride Name Change Kit contains all that new brides need to change their names for Social Security and tax records, driver's license and auto registration, voter's registration, and US passport, consolidated in one kit. Animal Den Shop Irish Greek Gear |
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TIME Magazine, February 13, 1950, p. 78: CORPORATIONS: Card Shark ...In the greeting-card business the company that understands and cares the most is Kansas City's Hall Brothers, Inc., world's largest greeting-card makers. It has a love that's deep and true for ready-made bow-legged tetrameter and a business built on sentiment (last year's estimated gross: $15 to $18 million). Last week in the midst of its biggest sales season next to Christmas, Hall Brothers was, as usual, turning out more than 1,000,000 of its "Hallmark" greeting cards every day. There were no fewer than 500 different designs for St. Valentine's Day* ranging from 5¢ greetings to $5 concoctions dripping with lace and scented sachets. Behind all the hearts & flowers is Joyce C. Hall, 58, a lean and solemn man who started out, at 18, to become a greeting-card shark by selling postcard greetings in Kansas City. Rollie B. Hall, a brother, joined him there, but they soon realized that postcard greetings were losing favor. Said Joyce Hall: "We found we were developing a dying business." They switched to cards enclosed in envelopes, were soon so successful that they took in another brother, William F. Hall. The Hall brothers claim to have fostered quite a few innovations. They were first with the "humorous" greeting ("You have the strength of a TIGER... lily!"). They developed the unfolding card that tells a continued story, and leveled out the seasonal peaks & valleys of the business by pushing the "everyday" card for birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, sympathy and the sick. Today, customers have a choice of six different Hallmark cards for the tonsillectomy patient alone; once there was even one for the friend who has been run down by a car. Other tricks of the trade: white kittens on cards will always outsell brown ones; geraniums are never good, but pansies are surefire sellouts. In addition to a staff of 150 artists, the company uses the works of such diverse painters as Vincent van Gogh, Norman Rockwell, Salvador Dali, Grandma Moses (one of the best sellers), and the winners of a $28,000 international contest (TIME, March 21). For the changeable public, Hallmark keeps plenty of new cards up its sleeve. One thing that doesn't worry Joyce Hall is a recession. In bad times, says he, people send greeting cards instead of presents. * Believed to commemorate the death of two Roman priests in 269 A.D., each called Valentinus, and both executed on the same day. One of them is supposed to have been executed for marrying lovers who came to him, despite a decree by Emperor Claudius II forbidding marriage (single men made better soldiers). |
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