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Sixty years after the opening of Wanamaker’s Philadelphia store, another entrepreneur synthesized a set of existing technologies and, along with a number of other retailers, began another revolution in the industry.
23 Venerable giants like Macy’s, Gimbels, Saks Fifth Avenue, Federated, and Wanamaker filed for bankruptcy in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
This list includes John Wanamaker and Marshall Field in the early era of the department store; Stanley Marcus of Nieman Marcus and Millard S. Drexler of The Gap are more recent examples of “buyer” CEOs.
Although providing consumers with low prices for a limited range of goods underpins the strategy of mass merchants and national chains, department stores (going back to Wanamaker) rely on offering consumers a diverse and exciting collection of goods.
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.