Summary[]
America's first major department store chain.
Exact Definition[]
Sears & Roebuck was a major department store that was started in Chicago around 1886. They helped to invent both the concept of te department store and of mail-order business.
Importance[]
They sold luxury goods to the middle class for cheap--showing an increasing commerco-industrial trend in American society.
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