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Macy's (World's largest store):

Macy's is a chain of American department stores with its flagship store in Herald Square, New York City, which has been billed as the "world's largest store" since completion of the Seventh Avenue addition in 1924. The company also operates two other national flagship stores, at San Francisco's Union Square and the former Marshall Field's flagship on State Street in the Chicago Loop.

The Macy's: World's largest store.

The company also has several divisional flagship stores, including in Atlanta, Miami, St. Louis, and Seattle.

The company is also well-known for sponsoring the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a parade held on the streets of New York City annually since 1924.

The company is part of the Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores and competes on an average price level above J.C. Penney and Sears, on level with Dillard's, but below Nordstrom and sister chain Bloomingdale's.

 

Expansion

Macy's New York began opening stores outside of its historic New York City-Long Island trade area in 1983 with a location at Aventura Mall in Aventura, Florida (a suburb of Miami), followed by several locations in Houston, New Orleans, and Dallas. Davison's in Atlanta was renamed Macy's Atlanta in early 1985 with the consolidation of an early incarnation of Macy's Midwest (former Taylor and LaSalle's stores in Kansas City and Toledo, respectively), but late in 1985, Macy's turned around and sold the former Midwest locations. Bamberger's, which had aggressively expanded throughout New Jersey, into the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan area in the 1960s and 1970s, and into the Baltimore Metropolitan area in the early 1980s, was renamed Macy's New Jersey in 1986.

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Reference: www.wikipedia.com