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Selfridges & Co. Limited [6] Website. www .selfridges .com. Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of upscale department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited, part of the Selfridges Group of department stores. [1] It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge in 1908.
Apr 25, 2016 · High street retailer British Home Stores (BHS) has filed for administration, with its Lancaster store among 164 now at risk. Administrators Duff & Phelps will now try to find a buyer for all or part of the 88-year old business, but in the meantime BHS will continue to trade. They said BHS, which employs almost 11,000 people nationwide, had ...
Jul 25, 2018 · By the 1890s, some large stores were doing as much as one third of their business by post, and developed separate departments to deal with demand. Yet the physical shop remained the cornerstone of ...
Aug 17, 2016 · :: 2014: BHS department stores start selling food with the aim for it to be about 10% cheaper on branded goods than the big four supermarkets which are already involved in a price war. :: 2014: BHS makes a cash loss of £21 million in the year to August 2014, compared with £19.3 million in the year earlier.
Aug 20, 2017 · The site where British Home Stores used to be in Plymouth still remains unused, exactly a year on since the shop closed its doors in the city. ... Lidl Plymouth is about to start selling SIX ...
The British Shopping Revolution 1940-1969. In 1950, Sainsbury’s opened their first self-service on London Road, Croydon. This meant the transition from stores whereby colleagues fetched all the items a customer needed, to the modern method we see in stores today of customers browsing aisles and selecting their own products.
Aug 13, 2017 · The year was 1888, and the flamboyant American was touring the great department stores of Europe - in Vienna, Berlin, the famous Bon Marche in Paris and then Manchester and London - to see what ...
