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Olivia Heller/The Hustle Because most malls relied on these anchor tenants to draw customers, the rise of big box stores as a replacement for the department stores meant the malls — and the specialty retailers inside them — faced financial problems of their own.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 6 Dec. 2024
Plus, the shape of a typical mall and department store almost always requires a complete teardown to bring in housing.
—Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
Details: The basement bar's aesthetics will feature wood and moody colors — a nod to the 1960s and '70s, when the space was the lower level of the department store.
—Linh Ta, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024
It’s carried at the department store Bongénie in two of its locations in Switzerland, but other countries are web sales only.
—Rhonda Richford, WWD, 2 Dec. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1887, in the meaning defined above
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“Department store.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/department%20store. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
department store
noun
: a store having separate sections for a wide variety of goods
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