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In 1846, Alexander Stewart, an Irish immigrant in America, gave the world its first department store when he opened a business called the "Marble Dry Goods Palace" on Broadway in New York City. While
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In 1846, Alexander Stewart, an Irish immigrant in America, gave the world its first department store when he opened a business called the "Marble Dry Goods Palace" on Broadway in New York City. While the term department store has been a part of the British vocabulary for a long time, there are some related American terms that are less familiar to British people.
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