I'd like to put together a think tank of people - economists, futurists, city planners, a few department-store people - to discuss reinventing the department store.

It was at the department store where people got away from provincialism.

The department store was a product of the 19th century and became a very important institution as America went into the 20th century. It provided show places in developing towns like Terre Haute, Sacramento, and Dallas.

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.

After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You Being Served?'