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DepartJnent Stores

  In 1846 an Irish immigrant in New York named Alexander Stewart opened a business called the Marble Dry-Goods Palaces. By doing so, he gave the world something completely new-the department store. Before this , no one (1)h ________tried to bring together such a wide range of goods (2)u ________a single roof. The business did very (3)w ________. It expanded rapidly and soon had a staff of two thousand. For Stewart even that was not enough , (4)h________. In 1862 he moved to an eight-storey (5)b ________nearby, (6)w________ he renamed A.T. Stewart's Cast-Iron Palace. It was , (7)a________ for many years would remain , the largest shop in the world.

  Others followed Stewart’s examples and soon there were stores (8)l________ his in many major cities in the United States. We don’t (9)k________ when people started calling them department stores. The expression wasn't used in print (10)u________ 1893 , when it appeared in Harper’s magazine, but the way that it was used there (11)m________ it clear that it was already widely understood.

  (12)W________ is certain is that department stores completely changed the shopping experience for millions of people. They offered not only an enormous range of goods , (13)b________also levels of comfort, luxury and excitement previously unknown to customers. Almost from the start they had restaurants , toilets and many (14)o________ facilities , so (15)t________ was no need to go elsewhere for anything.

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