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Sales at so-called nonstore retailers rose 10.6% in the first half of 2016 from a year earlier, while department-stores sales fell 3.8%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 15, 2016

There probably are not less than fifty department-stores alone which are now printing brisk contemporaries of Sparks.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward

Yes," says I. "Contrary to old ladies who meet at summer resorts and in department-stores, it's a sizable world we live in.

From The House of Torchy by Brown, Arthur William

It does not matter whether the applicant has had experience in other large department-stores.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward

Some of these commodities are handled by other great department-stores.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward