Department store

A department store is a store having a large surface of sale ( 2  500 with 92  000 m2 ), generally laid out on several stages, established in center town, and proposing with the sale a vast set of goods exposed in specialized rays. These are sales outlets multispecialists, of which the set is full, broad and deep .

History

The department stores appeared at the 19th century.

In France, the first of the kind was with Paris Bon Marché, founded in 1852 by Aristide Boucicaut, which will inspire with Emile Zola his novel With the Happiness of the Ladies .

Then the Grands Stores will come from Louvre, by Alfred Chauchard in 1855, With the Beautiful Flower stand (1856), the Grands stores of Spring, by Jules Jaluzot (1865), Samaritaine, by Ernest Cognacq and Louise Jay (1869) and the stores " In Réaumur" , by Jean-Baptiste Gobert-Martin (1897).

Department stores in the world

Department stores of Germany

  • Kaufhof

  • Hertie
  • Karstadt
  • KaDeWe, in Berlin

Department stores of the Canada

Department stores of Spain

Department stores of the the United States

Department stores of Finland

  • Stockmann

  • Sokos

Department stores of France

  • New Galleries

  • Galleries Lafayette
  • Spring

Department stores of Paris

Those of today

Those of formerly

  • Department stores of Louvre

  • With the Beautiful Flower stand
  • In Réaumur (Gobert-Martin), 82 with 96 rue Réaumur: building preserved
  • the Palate of the Innovation, or Dufayel Department stores, on the boulevard Barbs
  • With the Small Saint-Anthony, 33 rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière
  • With Gain-Small, avenue of the Opera
  • Cheuvreux-Aubertot House, boulevard Poissonnière

Department stores of Ireland

  • Arnotts (Ireland)

  • Brown Thomas
  • Cleary' S
  • Debenhams
  • Dunes Blinds
  • Harvey Nichols
  • House off Fraser
  • Marks & Spencer

Department stores of Italy

  • Rinascente

Department stores of Japan

See also: department stores of Japan

  • Isetan
  • Mitsukoshi
  • Takashimaya

Department stores of the the United Kingdom

Department stores of Sweden

See too

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