Definition of department store
: a store having separate sections for a wide variety of goods
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Bon-Ton, the parent company of Boston Store, Younkers and other department store brands, was sold to a group of liquidators and debt holders in a bankruptcy auction in April.
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This from a guy who would buy loads of household items from a local department store, use them, then promptly return them as if the store was nothing more than a convenient rental outlet.
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Prices appeared no cheaper than those in U.S. department stores, even allowing for the weak Canadian dollar (worth about 75 U.S. cents) and the promise of a 7 percent government tax rebate on foreign visitors’ short-term hotel bills and goods.
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Its staff sit at multipronged cubicle islands in a 1929 art deco building that originally housed a Sears, Roebuck and Co. department store, Gawande equal among them.
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Currently at the department store, about 278 items are on sale with select items at 25 to 50 percent off.
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Like other retailers, Macy’s has been aggressively cutting costs as shoppers abandon brick-and-mortar department stores, instead buying their clothes, home goods and cosmetics online.
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Trump’s titular fashion line, Ivanka Trump, has been dropped by Hudson’s Bay, a Canadian department store.
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In Wisconsin, Bon-Ton is closing over two dozen department stores.
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First Known Use of department store
1887
DEPARTMENT STORE Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of department store for English Language Learners
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: a large store that has separate areas in which different kinds of products are sold
DEPARTMENT STORE Defined for Kids
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Definition of department store for Students
: a store having individual departments for different kinds of goods
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