Department stores are large shops divided into different departments, selling a great many kinds of goods, including clothing, furniture, home appliances, toys, cosmetics, gardening, toiletries, sporting goods, do it yourself, paint and hardware and additionally select other lines of products such as food, books, jewelry, electronic stationery, photographic equipment and baby and pet needs. Department stores are usually part of a retail chain of many stores situated around a country or several countries.
Harrods, in the UK, Macy's, in the USA or El Corte Inglés, in Spain are some of the most widely known department stores all over the world.
In the following video you have some information about the history of Harrods. How many questions can you answer?
- Where is it located?
- How many departments has it got?
- When was it established?
- What did it sell at the beginning?
- In which year did it burn to the ground?
- Who were among its most known customers?
- When did Harrods install the world's first escalator?
- How many customers visit the store on peak days?
- How many people work on the different Harrods stores nowadays?
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade which is held in New York City at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day. The tradition started in 1924 and now it consists of a three-hour parade where you can find 50-foot ballons, floats, dancers, cheerleaders, performance groups, clowns, marching bands and, of course, celebrity performers. Here you have a three-minute video of the Macy's 84th Thanksgiving Parade. Enjoy it!
Some of the most popular celebrities worldwide have appeared on the parade and also in some of Macy's TV commercials. Can you recognize someone in this one?
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