Comments on: Target retains last vestige of its department store heritage http://stevensande.com/habitofwonder/2005/09/20/target-retains-last-vestige-of-department-store-heritage/ Moments in an imaginary age Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:46:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: Clark Humphrey http://stevensande.com/habitofwonder/2005/09/20/target-retains-last-vestige-of-department-store-heritage/#comment-44 Sat, 15 Oct 2005 01:31:12 -0700 http://stevensande.com/habitofwonder/2005/09/20/target-retains-last-vestige-of-department-store-heritage/#comment-44 I care. The Macyfication of America's great department stores will, I predict, turn out to be a greater marketing disaster than New Coke. Every day here in Seattle, I have to walk past what, in the jargon of a great Minneapolitan, I will only call "The Store Formerly Known As The Bon Marche." I care. The Macyfication of America’s great department stores will, I predict, turn out to be a greater marketing disaster than New Coke.

Every day here in Seattle, I have to walk past what, in the jargon of a great Minneapolitan, I will only call “The Store Formerly Known As The Bon Marche.”

]]> by: Steven Sande http://stevensande.com/habitofwonder/2005/09/20/target-retains-last-vestige-of-department-store-heritage/#comment-46 Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:36:38 -0700 http://stevensande.com/habitofwonder/2005/09/20/target-retains-last-vestige-of-department-store-heritage/#comment-46 I remember going to The Bon (and Frederick & Nelson) as a kid on a visit to Seattle. My mom used to speak of it fondly, and it was one of the sister stores whose credit cards were displayed on placards at Donaldsons in Minneapolis, when they were both owned by Allied Stores. To find myself actually at The Bon Marche was a thrill. Federated says they will at least retain the big brass Marshall Field and Company plates on State Street. After Dayton's became Field's, every trace of the old name vanished from the downtown store's exterior---even painted signs on the back of the building that had been fading away peacefully for decades. It was as if there had never been a Dayton's. I was stunned. I remember going to The Bon (and Frederick & Nelson) as a kid on a visit to Seattle. My mom used to speak of it fondly, and it was one of the sister stores whose credit cards were displayed on placards at Donaldsons in Minneapolis, when they were both owned by Allied Stores. To find myself actually at The Bon Marche was a thrill.

Federated says they will at least retain the big brass Marshall Field and Company plates on State Street. After Dayton’s became Field’s, every trace of the old name vanished from the downtown store’s exterior—even painted signs on the back of the building that had been fading away peacefully for decades. It was as if there had never been a Dayton’s. I was stunned.

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