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WH Smith PLC, trading as WHSmith (also written WH Smith, and known colloquially as Smith's and formerly as W. H. Smith & Son), is a British retailer, with headquarters in Swindon, England, which operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, entertainment products and confectionery.
A shopping street [1] or shopping district [2] is a designated road or quarter of a municipality that is composed of retail establishments (such as stores, boutiques, restaurants, and shopping complexes). Such areas may be pedestrian-oriented, [3] with street-side buildings and wide sidewalks.
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A portion of the district (named the Fulton-Randolph Market District) was granted Landmark District status by the City of Chicago in 2015. [2] [3] [4] The landmarked portion of the district is around 74 acres in size. [4] It is served by the CTA's Green and Pink Lines at the Morgan 'L' station, as well as several bus routes. It borders the ...
Sills died of a heart attack in 1930 while playing tennis with his wife at his Brentwood home at the age of 48. [1] He was interred at Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum in Chicago. In December 1930, Photoplay published a poem found among his personal effects. [10] He was a founding member in 1913 of Actors' Equity. [11]
The so-called 'clicks and mortar' strategy aimed to combine high street shopping with emerging internet shopping trends. Virgin lost out to music and mobile phone competitors such as The Link, The Carphone Warehouse, HMV and MVC, while the increasing popularity of online shopping rendered the in-store ordering terminals redundant. Despite this ...
900 North Michigan in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois, is a skyscraper completed in 1989. At 871 feet (265 m) tall, it is the eleventh tallest building in Chicago as of 2023 [update] and the 59th-tallest in the United States .
2011 June - Moss Bros sells 8 of its 9 Cecil Gee shops to JD Fashion Group Plc for £1.7 million. The remaining Cecil Gee shop in Glasgow is re-branded as a Moss shop. 2016 Spring - Moss introduces a high street personalisation suiting service, 'Tailor-Me', of which nothing similar has been done on the UK, taking over from Moss Bespoke.