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Posted by Joe on Tue Jun 5 17:53:31 2018, in response to Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by northshore on Tue Jun 5 14:10:51 2018. Retail clothing stores have continued to migrate around Manhattan over the decades: Chambers St to Canal to 14th to 34 or 59th. I presume that the residents of Fifth Avenue from 42nd to 59th objected when the stores moved in. Now they are moving on.--- Even the onslaught of online clothing and shoe sales has a precedent, with the introduction of Sears mail order catalog and delivery by Railway Express. --- On the other hand, when you build a subway, it is difficult to move it somewhere else. To me, the lack of shoppers on subways and buses (that is, people carrying merchandise from stores) says to me that the trunk of a car has taken one role the subway used to have. --- Prior to WW2, I think it was common for a lady shopper to go to a midtown store, buy something and have the store's truck deliver it. I vaguely recall Macy's giving up its own truck fleet and calling United Parcel. I also vaguely recall Macy's begging its customers (during the war) to take the package home with themselves. |
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