As Ms. Blake suggested in her essay about food insecurity in Zimbabwe, a down escalator can be used as a metaphor.

On September 8, 1993, the opening night of the brand-new Barneys flagship store on Madison Avenue, the escalators shrieked. The two-hundred-and-sixty-seven-million-dollar palace of consumption was ...

From Le Bon Marché in Paris to Macy’s in New York, we delve into the history of the world’s most iconic department stores.

(After Alaska was admitted to the union in 1959, the slogan changed to "the greatest store in the greatest state.") S.A.