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The history of retail encompasses the sale of goods and services to consumers across all cultures and time periods from ancient history to the present. [1] Commerce first took the form of bargaining between early human civilizations. Beginning with Middle Eastern towns in the 7th millennium BCE, retail markets emerged when civilizations created ...
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2. Department stores arrive: Mid 1800s – Early 1900s. The pioneering spirit of people moving west and both opening and shopping at local general stores evolved as the United States moved into the 20th century. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, America’s business and economic sectors changed dramatically.
Feb 3, 2020 · The 1940-1960s: The Post-War Retail. Shopping malls. World War II naturally caused a drop in global commerce sales. Peter Vanham, the Media Lead for the World Economic Forum, claims that by 1944-1945, trade as a percentage of the world’s GDP had decreased to 5%. That was the lowest threshold in more than a century.
1907: United Parcel Service founded, focused on package delivery for stores. Circa 1925: Golden age of mail order. Sears + MW sold over $400 m of goods annually. Sears’ sales alone accounted for over 2% of total farm cash income. 1925: Sears opened first physical store. 1931: Sears store sales eclipse catalog sales.
Aug 26, 2019 · The United States became the most “over-retailed” nation on the planet. By the early 2000s, the US had multiple times the retail of other nations with similar wealth. Growth in US retail has slowed since then, but even so, “Retail square feet per capita in the United States is more than six times that of Europe or Japan,” said Richard Haynes, CEO of Urban Outfitters, in 2017.
Nov 19, 2012 · Discount shopping as we know it began 50 years ago. In 1962, enterprising retailers invented Wal-Mart, Target and Kmart. These stores changed the way we shop and the way we think about price ...
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