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Like Dillard’s, its stores carry a vast array of products: a typical department store may have 800,000 items; its flagship Macy’s in midtown Manhattan offers more than two million separate SKUs.
The leveraged buyouts, mergers, and corporate restructuring of the 1980s left many of the historic retail powerhouses in a vulnerable condition, with a number of the strongest traditional retailers—Macy’s, Saks, Sears—in an extremely weakened state.
[From a Macy's advertisement, The Philadelphia Inquirer , Submitted by ]
That means the large department stores traditionally based in cities, such as Macy’s or Marshall Field and Company—served by mass transportation and marketed through newspaper advertisements—suffered from the competition of mass distributors like Wal-Mart and specialty shops in new locations.
For example, Wanamaker’s “one-price” policy was initially adopted by wholesaler Arthur Tappan in the 1820s and experimented with by Lord & Taylor in 1838 and Rowland Macy in the early 1850s.