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Rich's was a major department store retail chain, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, that operated in the southern U.S. from 1867 until March 6, 2005 when the nameplate was eliminated and replaced by Macy's. Macy's South, an Atlanta-based division of Federated Department Stores is the successor to Rich's. For the department store chain of Atlanta see Richs. ... Image File history File links Rich's2daylogo. ... The interior of a typical Macys department store. ... 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Nickname: Hotlanta, The Big Peach, The ATL, A-Town Location in Fulton County in the state of Georgia Coordinates: Country United States State Georgia Counties Fulton, Dekalb Mayor Shirley Franklin (D) Area    - City 343. ... Drawing of a self-service store. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... The interior of a typical Macys department store. ... A Target chain store. ... Nickname: Hotlanta, The Big Peach, The ATL, A-Town Location in Fulton County in the state of Georgia Coordinates: Country United States State Georgia Counties Fulton, Dekalb Mayor Shirley Franklin (D) Area    - City 343. ... The U.S. Southern states or the South, also known colloquially as Dixie, constitute a distinctive region covering a large portion of the United States, with its own unique heritage, historical perspective, customs, musical styles, and cuisine. ... 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Macys is a chain of American department stores with its flagship store in Herald Square, New York City, which has been billed as the worlds largest store since completion of the Seventh Avenue addition in 1924. ... The flagship Macys South store, at Lenox Square in Atlanta. ... Federated Department Stores, Inc. ...

History

It began in Atlanta as M. Rich Dry Goods general store in 1867. The store was at 36 Whitehall Street, and was run by Morris Rich. It was renamed M. Rich & Co. in 1871, when his brother Emanuel joined him; it was again renamed M. Rich & Bros. in 1876 when the third brother Daniel joined. In 1872 it moved across the street to the corner with Hunter Street (now MLK Street), and in 1881 to 54 and 56 Whitehall Street, later adding 52 in 1906. In 1901 it became a true department store by dividing merchandise into separated sections, and was incorporated as M. Rich & Bros. Co. It became simply Rich's in 1924. Two innovative ideas that Rich tried were the barter system and a credit system This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ... A general store is usually a retailer located in a small town or in a rural area with a broad selection of merchandise crammed into a relatively small space. ... 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Rue Saint-Jacques, a street in Montreal, 1910 A street is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... In marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a market that might satisfy a want or need. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Daniel's son Walter succeeded his uncle Morris as Rich's president from 1926 to 1947, and was succeeded by his own son Richard H. Rich. Under the leadership of Richard Rich, affectionately known as Dick Rich, Rich's began expansion in the 1950s opening its first suburban store at Lenox Square, Georgia's first shopping mall. The open-air mall shared space with the other major Atlanta department store, Davison's. Around that time, Rich's also opened a store at Belvedere Plaza Shopping Center, a large two-level strip mall near Decatur and a store in Knoxville, Tennessee that was later sold to Miller's. Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (1861-1865) The majority of this article is about heads of states. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... The 1950s was the decade spanning from the 1st of January, 1950 to the 31st December, 1959. ... Housing subdivision near Union, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. ... Ariel view of Lenox Square with J.W. Marriot in background. ... A shopping mall (or simply mall), shopping center, or shopping arcade is a building or set of buildings that contain stores, and has interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from store to store. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Belvedere Plaza Shopping Center, located in Belvedere Park (at Memorial Dr — S.R. 154 — and Columbia Drive), was one of the earliest malls in the Atlanta area. ... Decatur is a city located in DeKalb County, Georgia. ... Nickname: The Marble City, K-Town, Big Orange Country, Knox Vegas Location Location within the U.S. State of Tennessee Coordinates , Government Cities in Tennessee Tennessee Mayor Bill Haslam (R) Geographical characteristics Area     City 254. ... Official language(s) English Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Largest metro area Nashville Area  Ranked 36th  - Total 42,169 sq mi (109,247 km²)  - Width 120 miles (195 km)  - Length 440 miles (710 km)  - % water 2. ...

Rich's most aggressive expansion was during the 1960s and 1970s. Four more stores opened in the Atlanta area in the 1960s, two of those enormous three story full line stores. While this expansion resulted in continued success of the chain, it chipped away at the business of the downtown store. By this time, Rich's was the leading regional department store in the country, though it remained largely unknowned by the general public outside of Georgia. This would soon change, however. The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...

Older 1960's South Dekalb Mall store with the original green store sign.

Throughout the 1970s, four more Rich's locations opened in Georgia including one in Augusta, the first in the state outside of Atlanta. Rich's also began an aggressive expansion with stores in Alabama and South Carolina. Also, there were plans much later in the early 1990s to expand Rich's into Charlotte, but these were scrapped. Of all the stores out of state, stores opened in Greenville, Columbia and Birmingham with two (adding a third in 1986) in Birmingham, creating stiffer competition in the city against regional chains Pizitz, Loveman's and Parisian. This expansion also strained the company financially, and the sudden death of Richard Rich in 1975 threw the company into turmoil. It was rumored that the surviving descendants were incapable of running the company, and the store was ultimately sold out to Federated Department Stores. Image File history File links Richs_southdekalb4_122604. ... Image File history File links Richs_southdekalb4_122604. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Nickname: The Garden City (of the South), Masters City, The AUG Motto: We feel Good Location of the consolidated areas of Augusta and Richmond County in the state of Georgia. ... Official language(s) English Capital Montgomery Largest city Birmingham Area  Ranked 30th  - Total 52,419 sq mi (135,765 km²)  - Width 190 miles (306 km)  - Length 330 miles (531 km)  - % water 3. ... Official language(s) English Capital Charleston(1670-1789) Columbia(1790-present) Largest city Columbia Largest metro area Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson Area  Ranked 40th  - Total 34,726 sq mi (82,965 km²)  - Width 200 miles (320 km)  - Length 260 miles (420 km)  - % water 6  - Latitude 32°430N to 35... Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ... Charlotte (also known as candle stick) is a figure skating grace move - one of the spirals, where the skater is bended and glides on its one leg with the other one lifted to the air. ... Pizitz was a major regional department store chain centered in Birmingham, Alabama. ... Lovemans included two separate Southeastern department store chains with the same name. ... // Parisian is a moderate to upscale U.S. chain of department stores, based in Birmingham, Alabama known for its superior level of personalized service and limited distribution of specialty brands such as Juicy Couture, Karen Kane, BCBG Max Azria, Garfield & Marks, Tahari, Jig Saw, 7 For All Mankind, Diesel, Paper... Federated Department Stores, Inc. ...

The sale to Federated ended over 100 years of ownership by the Rich family and also began the slow and steady decline in service and quality of Rich's from its peak in 1954. Aside from the Great Tree, most of the traditions of Rich's and the departments (including the bakery) were all stripped away by the early 1990s. Loyalty to the chain, however, remained very strong even after the downtown flagship store was closed and demolished in 1991. This began to diminish though as Atlanta grew in profile as a large Southern city, towards recognition as a major American city, bringing in people who neither knew nor grew up with Rich's. 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Loyalty is faithfulness or devotion to a person or cause. ... A flagship is the ship used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships. ... A massive crane is used to demolish this tower block in northern England Demolition is the opposite of construction: the tearing-down of buildings and other structures. ...

In 1994, the parent company of Rich's bought out Macy's, which was historically Atlanta's rival chain under the Davison's banner. The following year, Rich's was merged with Lazarus in the midwest and Goldsmith's in Memphis. Through the merged division, the chain grew in a corporate sense as it was operated out of Atlanta, but the Lazarus and Goldsmith's stores continued to operate under their regional names. The merger with Goldsmith's occurred in 1988 and Lazarus in 1995. Lazarus was one of Federated's founding store chains. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Macys is a chain of American department stores with its flagship store in Herald Square, New York City, which has been billed as the worlds largest store since completion of the Seventh Avenue addition in 1924. ... F&R Lazarus & Company (commonly known as Lazarus) was a regional department store retail chain primarily in the U.S. Midwest, based in Columbus, Ohio, which operated until March 6, 2005. ... Goldsmiths was a major department store retail chain largely located in the metropolitan area of Memphis, Tennessee, from 1870 to 2005, when the nameplate was eliminated and replaced by Macys. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Distinct store at North Point Mall, which opened in 1993 with an elaborate design in tribute to the lost flagship. As the first store built since the downtown store was closed, this was likely built this way to make up to the long-time customers angry over the closure. No Macy's was built at this mall.

When Rich's and Macy's both were owned by the same company, this resulted in the overlapping of the two chains all selling the same products. With department stores beginning to decline in the late 1990s and the two stores selling basically the same product, the decision was made less than ten years later in 2003 to close all of the former Davison's/Macy's stores in Atlanta (no new Macy's stores had been built in Atlanta since Town Center at Cobb in 1986) and co-brand Rich's as Rich's-Macy's. This change was intended to slowly phase out the chain instead of a sudden change so as to reduce the backlash over the elimination of an Atlanta institution that was one of the institutions that defined the city, similar to Marshall Field's in Chicago. Still, with longtime customers already fed up with the decline of the store over time and the long closed downtown flagship slowly being forgotten, the merger was effectively met with less reaction than would have occurred back when the downtown store was alive. Image File history File links Richs_northpointmall3. ... Image File history File links Richs_northpointmall3. ... North Point Mall, located in Alpharetta, GA (a suburb of Atlanta) opened in 1993 as one of the largest shopping malls in the country. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Town Center Mall, lesser known by its official name Town Center at Cobb, is a shopping mall located in Kennesaw, Georgia near Atlanta. ... Backlash has meaning in both socio-political and engineering contexts. ... Marshall Fields was an iconic Chicago, Illinois department store that grew to become a major chain before being acquired by Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores on August 30, 2005. ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, The City of Big Shoulders The 312 Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook Incorporated March 4, 1837 Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area...

Rich's-Macy's logo, 2003-2005

The same year that Rich's and Macy's merged, the downtown Macy's (Davison's flagship store) was closed down. Also in the merger, the Lenox Square and Perimeter Mall Macy's (also former Davison's) became Bloomingdale's with the rest closed except for the Town Center Mall store, whose middle floor is now used as a Macy's Furniture store. The following year, when the Cobb Center store closed, the furniture clearance center was also relocated there. Image File history File links Cblogorichs. ... Image File history File links Cblogorichs. ... Ariel view of Lenox Square with J.W. Marriot in background. ... Bloomingdales is a chain of upscale American department stores owned by Federated Department Stores, which is also the parent company of Macys. ... Closeout as in closeout sale is the final sale in the case of the final closure of a retailer because of a relocation, a fire (fire sale) or, especially, because of a bankruptcy. ...

After 138 years, Rich's (as Rich's-Macy's) disappeared on March 6, 2005 along with the other historical nameplates "Goldsmith-Macy's", and "Lazarus-Macy's" were eliminated, with the stores renamed as the Macy's Central division of Federated. Macy's South is the current division encompassing the former Rich's stores. A signature event of the store, Rich's Great Tree, continues as an annual Thanksgiving event in Atlanta, though the flagship downtown Atlanta building it earlier took place on was destroyed. The tradition ironically continues as simply the "Great Tree", ignoring the name of the store that made the tradition famous. All former Rich's today continue to operate under the Macy's banner. Its Richway discount store chain, founded in 1968, was sold in 1988 to what is now Target Stores. March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Macys is a chain of American department stores with its flagship store in Herald Square, New York City, which has been billed as the worlds largest store since completion of the Seventh Avenue addition in 1924. ... Federated Department Stores, Inc. ... The flagship Macys South store, at Lenox Square in Atlanta. ... The Richs Great Tree is a live, life-size, outdoor Christmas tree that has been an Atlanta tradition since 1947. ... Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks, traditionally to God, for the things one has at the close of the harvest season. ... A flagship is the ship used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Central business district. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A discount store is a retail store offering a wide range of products, many branded, at discounted prices. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Target Stores is a division of Target Corporation. ...

Morris, Walter, and Daniel Rich are all buried at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. Aerial map of Oakland Cemetery Oakland Cemetery is the oldest and largest cemetery, as well as one of the largest green spaces, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded as Atlanta Cemetery in 1850 on six acres (2. ...

Former Locations

Georgia

• Downtown Atlanta (1925, closed in 1991; 1951 additions later demolished)
• Lenox Square (flagship; now flagship store of Macy's South) (1959)
• Belvedere Plaza (1959, closed 1986 and later demolished)
• Cobb Center Mall/Cobb County Shopping Center (1963, closed early 2004)
• North Dekalb Mall (1965)
• Greenbriar Mall (1965)
• South Dekalb Mall (1968)
• Perimeter Mall (1971)
• Cumberland Mall (1973)
• Southlake Mall (1976)
• Augusta Mall - Augusta (1978)
• Shannon Mall (1980)
• Gwinnett Place Mall (1984)
• Town Center Mall (1986)
• Oglethorpe Mall - Savannah (1991, built anew near the former site of Maas Brothers)
• North Point Mall (1993, store was designed in tribute with distinct architectural elements)
• Georgia Square Mall - Athens (1998, in former Davison's/Macy's location)
• Macon Mall - Macon (1998, in former Davison's/Macy's location)
• Mall of Georgia (2000)
• Mall at Stonecrest (2001)
• Peachtree Mall - Columbus (2002, in former Montgomery Ward location)
• Northlake Mall (2003, in former Davison's/Macy's location, signed as Rich's-Macy's)
• Arbor Place Mall (2004, opened newly as Rich's-Macy's)

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South Carolina

• Columbia Mall - Columbia (1977)
• Haywood Mall - Greenville (1980)

The Mall in Columbia or Columbia Mall in the planned community of Columbia, Maryland is a large regional shopping mall with five anchor department stores (Sears, JC Penney, Nordstrom, Hecht Company, and Lord and Taylor) and over 200 stores. ... Location in South Carolina Coordinates: County Greenville County Founded 1831 Mayor Knox White Area    - City 67. ...

Alabama

• Century Plaza - Birmingham (1975, closed 2004)
• Colonial Brookwood Village/Brookwood Mall - Birmingham (1975)
• Riverchase Galleria - Birmingham (1986)

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Tennessee

• Downtown Knoxville (1950's)

Nickname: The Marble City, K-Town, Big Orange Country, Knox Vegas Location Location within the U.S. State of Tennessee Coordinates , Government Cities in Tennessee Tennessee Mayor Bill Haslam (R) Geographical characteristics Area     City 254. ...

External links

• FieldsFansChicago.org Macy's boycott site
• Extensive history at Atlanta city government
• WABE history
• UrbanPlanet
• Rich's Christmas postcard