1893 - Retail, Trade

Retail, Trade

Au Bon Marché at Paris has sales of 150 million gold francs, up from 20 million in 1870 (see 1876); it is the world's largest department store but the Samaritain started 6 years ago will become even larger.

Marshall Field and Company occupies nearly an entire city block on Chicago's State Street (see 1881); its wholesale store employs more than 3,000 on 13 acres of floor space.

Sears, Roebuck & Company uses that name for the first time as the Chicago mail-order firm racks up sales of $338,000 in baby carriages, clothing, furniture, musical instruments, sewing machines, and a wide range of other merchandise (see 1889). By next year its catalog will have more than 500 pages (see Rosenwald, 1895).