Retail.Climate: Despite expectations that retail sales would sink with the downturn in the housing market, shoppers continued to pack stores and purchase merchandise. Biggest News: The passing of Robinsons-May. The chain was converted to Macy's following the merger of May Department Stores The May Department Stores Company was a department store chain founded in 1877 by David May in Leadville, Colorado. Its headquarters moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1905, and the company went public in 1911. Co. and Federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. Department Stores Co. Besides the disappearance of the Rob-May moniker (1) A name, title or alias. See alias. (2) A COM object that is used to create instances of other objects. Monikers save programmers time when coding various types of COM-based functions such as linking one document to another (OLE). See COM and OLE. throughout L.A., the Valley lost the chain's regional headquarters, which had operated in North Hollywood. Companies in the News: Westfield completed one of the largest makeovers ever in the Valley with the renovation of its Topanga mall. Nordstrom opened the largest store in its arsenal, a redone re·done v. Past participle of redo. 200,000-square foot freestanding store, also in Topanga. Stevens Nursery & Hardware closed after 65 years in the Valley to make room for a condominium development in Valley Village. |
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