department store

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Originally proposed by Beardsley Ruml, an executive at Macy’s department store who encouraged shoppers to buy on the installment plan, withholding was cleverly called “pay as you go.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

As fast as she could, my mother went to the schoolbook section of Gimbel’s department store and brought home teachers’ reading books.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

In that post, he denied Carroll's claim that she had been attacked by him in the mid-1990s in a New York department store dressing room.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

Grilled "kabayaki" using fully farmed eel will be sold from May 29 at a department store in Tokyo and several other outlets including online shops in Japan.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Just a shade lighter green than the suit was my narrow-collared, three-quarter length Lansing department store topcoat.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey