Question: What is recognized as the "first" department store in America?
Answer: Arnold, Constable

Question: Who founded Arnold, Constable? 
Answer: Aaron Arnold

Question: Where was the store moved in 1857?
Answer: a five-story white marble dry goods palace known as the Marble House.

Question: What made Arnold, Constable stand out from other stores during the civil war? 
Answer: was one of the first stores to issue charge bills of credit to its customers each month instead of on a bi-annual basis

Question: When was the "Palace of Trade" built? 
Answer: 1869

Question: Where was the "Marble Palace" built in 1846?
Answer: on Broadway, between Chambers and Reade streets

Question: What policy did the Marble Palace introduce? 
Answer: "free entrance" to all potential customers.

Question: How many departments did the new store have, built in 1862?
Answer: nineteen

Question: What selling methods did the Marble Palace use?
Answer: cash and not credit

Question: What customer services did the Marble Palace offer? 
Answer: waiting rooms and free delivery of purchases

Question: Who opened the original "modern" department store in America?
Answer: John Wanamaker

Question: What feature made Wanamakers different from other stores at the time? 
Answer: fixed prices marked on every article

Question: How were important documents and money transported throughout the store? 
Answer: pneumatic tubes

Question: When was electric lighting first installed and used in the store? 
Answer: 1878

Question: In what state was Wanamakers established? 
Answer: Pennsylvania

Question: In what year was Marshall Field and company established? 
Answer: 1852

Question: When did Marshall's convert to the Macy's name? 
Answer: 9 September 2006

Question: What made Marshall's such a good example for other stores?
Answer: exceptional customer service

Question: Where was Marshall's European buying office located? 
Answer: Manchester, England

Question: What free service did Marshall's provide customers until changing their name to Macy's? 
Answer: personal shopper

Question: What occupation did David Jones have?
Answer: merchant

Question: Where did David Jones and Charles Appleton meet? 
Answer: in London

Question: Where did Appleton begin a store in 1825?
Answer: Sydney

Question: What was the store in Sydney called after Jones moved to Australia? 
Answer: Appleton & Jones

Question: When did the partnership between Jones and Appleton end?
Answer: 1838

Question: What were some of the original Australian department stores? 
Answer: Grace Bros. and Waltons

Question: When did Sydney Myer come to Australia? 
Answer: 1899

Question: Where did the Myer Retail Group open it's first store? 
Answer: Bendigo, Victoria

Question: What type of department stores are Myer and David Jones? 
Answer: up-market chains

Question: What department store brand is now out of business in Australia? 
Answer: Venture

Question: What business was the Hudson's Bay Company originally involved in? 
Answer: the fur trade

Question: What department store chain did Hudson's Bay Company own until it dissolved in 2013?
Answer: Zellers

Question: How many stores did Woolco operate before selling their shares to Walmart? 
Answer: 160

Question: Currently, what department store is most popular in Canada? 
Answer: Walmart

Question: What is one type of competition department stores face? 
Answer: specialist stores

Question: What types of stores have created even more competition? 
Answer: superstores

Question: What factor lead to a decrease in department store shoppers?
Answer: residents moved out of the downtown areas to the suburbs

Question: In what year were department store sales beaten by larger stores?
Answer: 2003

Question: What began the influx of Chinese department stores?
Answer: opening policy in 1979

Question: What area does INTIME department stores have the most influence in?
Answer: Zhejiang province

Question: What department store has the most success in Jiangsu Province?
Answer: Jinying

Question: How are these foreign department stores expanding so quickly? 
Answer: by listing in the financial market.

Question: What year did Lane Crawford open? 
Answer: 1850

Question: Who established Lane Crawford? 
Answer: Scots Thomas Ash Lane and Ninian Crawford

Question: What was the store's original target customer base?
Answer: visiting ships' crews as well as British Navy staff and their families

Question: Who opened the first Chinese-owned department store? 
Answer: Ma Ying Piu

Question: What are the 3 main department store companies in Denmark? 
Answer: Magasin (1868), Illum (1891), Salling (1906).

Question: Currently, what is the largest department store chain in Denmark? 
Answer: Magasin

Question: Where is Magasin's "flagship" store located? 
Answer: Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen

Question: How many stores does Salling have in Jutland? 
Answer: two

Question: What are two main department stores in France?
Answer: Galeries Lafayette and Le Printemps

Question: What year was the first department store open in France? 
Answer: 1852

Question: Who currently owns Le Bon Marche?
Answer: LVMH

Question: What apartment store in Paris was closed in 2005? 
Answer: La Samaritaine

Question: What French department store is part of the same group as Galeries Lafayette?
Answer: BHV (Bazar de l'Hotel de Ville)

Question: What cities influenced how department stores in Germany operated? 
Answer: London, Paris and New York.

Question: What department store was taken over by Nicolas Berggruen in 2010?
Answer: Karstadt

Question: What major department store operates in Berlin? 
Answer: KaDeWe

Question: What store is a part of the Metro AG?
Answer: GALERIA Kaufhof

Question: Where did the Metro Department store originally begin?
Answer: Singapore and Sogo from Japan

Question: When did Seibu, located in Jakarta, re-open? 
Answer: 2007

Question: Where did Galeries Lafayette open in 2013, inside Indonesia? 
Answer: Pacific Place Mall

Question: Who operates the wide range of department stores in these areas?
Answer: PT. Mitra Adiperkasa.

Question: What store led the Indonesian markets until 2010 when it closed? 
Answer: Harvey Nichols

Question: What store did Parkson buy in 2011? 
Answer: Centro Department Store

Question: Where did Centro open it's first store of 2014?
Answer: Medan

Question: Who did Lotte partner with? 
Answer: Ciputra Group

Question: Where is the "Lotte Shopping Avenue" located? 
Answer: Ciputra World Jakarta complex

Question: What was Makro re-labeled as after it's purchase? 
Answer: Lotte Mart

Question: When did Ireland begin to see a growth in its middle class?
Answer: mid-nineteenth century.

Question: What department store was founded in 1853?
Answer: Delany's New Mart

Question: In what city was Delany's New Mart opened? 
Answer: Dublin

Question: What was Delany's originally called? 
Answer: Monster House

Question: In what year was the store destroyed? 
Answer: 1916

Question: What Mexican department store typically caters to high-end goods?
Answer: El Palacio de Hierro

Question: What company is responsible for over 100 stores in the country? 
Answer: Sanborns

Question: What company operates Sears Mexico? 
Answer: Grupo Carso

Question: What chains typically cater to bargain shoppers? 
Answer: Coppel and Elektra

Question: What sorts of goods do the most popular department stores in New Zealand offer? 
Answer: high-end and luxury items

Question: What city is Arthur Barnett in? 
Answer: Dunedin

Question: Where is H & J Smith's flagship store?
Answer: Invercargill

Question: Where are H & J Smith stores typically located? 
Answer: Southland

Question: When was Laidlaw Leeds first established? 
Answer: 1909

Question: How did Panama's department stores originally begin? 
Answer: as textile retailers

Question: When did Panama's Department stores first start? 
Answer: at the turn of the nineteenth century