Example sentences for: wanamaker

How can you use “wanamaker” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Unless Wanamaker was willing to pay double for reaching the right half of the people, his total ad spending would go down and not up.

  • Wanamaker had been in the forefront of retailing for more than thirty years by the time he opened this store.

  • Many of the first department stores have names that are still familiar: Macy’s in New York, Marshall Field’s in Chicago, John Wanamaker in Philadelphia.

  • John Wanamaker, who built a department store empire in 19 th -century Philadelphia, once said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted ...

  • 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.


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