After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You Being Served?'

It was at the department store where people got away from provincialism.

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.

I had 13 job offers out of college. I went to Bullock's department store and had a fantastic interview, but was skeptical. I knew retail didn't pay much.

I'd like to put together a think tank of people - economists, futurists, city planners, a few department-store people - to discuss reinventing the department store.