No, small businesses have been around since very close to the time Europeans first started settlements here. There would be almost no way of knowing what the first store was called. It would have most likely been a general store.
Sears first began in 1886 as the R.W. Sears Watch Company in Minneapolis, MN. Sears hired Roebuck in 1887, moved his company to Chicago, and in 1893 the corporate name of the firm became Sears, Roebuck and Co. At that time, all sales were done by mail-order from a catalog. The first store was opened in the Chicago mail-order plant in 1925 and was so successful that seven more stores were opened in the area by the end of that year.
Well, this question is actually an opinion. So in my opinion, iit is really interesting that it was Sears and Roebuck that actually got the store opened. They got the name from "Sears."
First store was opened in Chicago in 1901
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They opened their first store in 1994.
Athletes World store first opened in 1978. It was a store opened by Bata footwear empire specifically for athletic shoes. They eventually lost too much money and closed in 2013.
Yes, the first Hollister store was opened in 2000 in the Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio. The first flagship Hollister store opened in 2009 in NYC.
Harry Gordon Slefridge went to the UK and opened his first department store. The store was first open to the public in 1909. The exact date of the opening was March 15th, 1909
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in 1929 Jack Cohen opened the first Tesco store in Burnt Oak, Edgware, North London.
The worlds first Toys R Us store was opened in Washington, DC in 1948 at 2461 18th St., NW. A man named Charles Lazarus originally opened the store which at first only sold baby furniture.