What were the stores called in the 1800s?

Answer 1

Shopping is one of the things that they liked to do in olden times. Shops were sparse and times were hard. Yet each shop was a treasure trove of antiquities. It was much the same in the early 19th century and continued that way until it was quite unlike the 1800's.

Answer 2

One of the most important things to remember about households prior to the second World War is that most people simply didn't have a lot of stuff - most teenagers in America today have more physical stuff than an entire middle-class household did in 1850. The family may have had a half dozen changes of clothing each, two sets of bedding (summer and winter), dishes, some furniture and some family heirlooms. This would all be easily stored in a single wardrobe or shelving unit in the house. Working equipment such as firearms, tools and cooking utensils would be stored close to the work, in a box or simply leaning against the wall.

Food was a different matter - most households would have at least one month's worth of food on hand, and farmhouses would often have six months worth of food on hand. This would be stored in pantries, in smokehouses, along the rafters of the kitchen and common areas, in root cellars and basements and pretty much anywhere else food could be kept safe.

Answer 3

As such supermarkets, shopping centres and malls were not in existence. The main retail environments were high street based clothing, shoe shops, green grocers butchers, bakers, haberdashery, furniture and stationers

Answer 4

there were grocery stores, mining supplies, hotels, and etc.

Answer 5

They did not shop then.

They made their own clothes back then.

Answer 6

Americans at the turn of the 20th century witnessed the beginings of the shopping center, the development of department and chain stores,and the both of modern advertising.

Answer 7

they were called shopsback then

Answer 8

alley way shops or "window shops"