PHILADELPHIA − A crowd waited outside Macy's for the doors to open on a cloudy, foggy Tuesday morning a couple of weeks before Christmas. Some were there to shop, but others, such as Bryan and Amanda ...

Department stores once sold necessities. Now, many are struggling to remain in business amid the rise of online shopping.

Rike’s department store was known for its decorations and activity around Christmastime. Many Daytonians may remember being enthralled by the animated store windows around the holidays. The iconic ...

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Across department stores, thousands of glimmering Christmas lights and extravagant window displays are doing the work to beckon in customers and brighten up a potentially gloomy season. Consumer ...

American department stores evolved from frontier dry goods dealers in the 1800s into elegant shopping palaces through 20th century and then declined as competition, new management and market forces ...

Cody McNabb, a department store manager in Tennessee, has gone viral for the full-blown holiday display he and his team set up in the home section of their store. NBC News' Kathy Park spoke to McNabb ...

Three scale models of an iconic department store are to go on public display. Jacksons was founded in 1875, and its flagship store in Reading remained open until 2013. Now, scale models of three of ...