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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.
23 Venerable giants like Macy’s, Gimbels, Saks Fifth Avenue, Federated, and Wanamaker filed for bankruptcy in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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.
The early twentieth-century success of Wanamaker’s and other department stores illustrates that the keys to effective retailing are providing customers with a variety of desirable products, procuring those products at a low enough cost to make a profit, marketing them well, and charging prices that reflect customers’ willingness to pay.
Although this may seem obvious today, Wanamaker shook up the existing retail world in the 1870s by seeking to understand his customers’ preferences as a basis for making merchandising choices.