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 as of September 9, 2006, on Chicago's State Street (formerly Marshall Field's).

Macy's was founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy, who in 1851 established a dry goods store in downtown Haverhill, Massachusetts, after moving to New York City and establishing a new store named "R.H. Macy & Company" on the corner of 14th Street and 6th Avenue, which later moved to 18th Street and Broadway on the "Ladies' Mile", the 19th century elite shopping district, where it remained for nearly forty years.


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