Talk:Burdines

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This is the discussion page related to work on the Wikipedia article about the defunct Burdines Department Stores of Miami, Florida, United States.

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Company Information

 * Founding of the Company
 * Innovative Practices
 * Merger with Federated
 * Community Impact

Significant Events & Traditions
Including sponsorship of community events & celebrations

Former Locations

 * Original stores
 * Acquisitions

Miscellaneous Materials

 * Photographs
 * Logos
 * Related websites and offline references

carriage-trade store
This sentence in the opening paragraph is meaningless to the average reader (and missing a comma): "Historically Burdines was known as the carriage-trade store in Florida". I'm tempted to remove it but I don't know if its trying to convey something useful. Is it trying to say that the chain was previously named "The Carriage-Trade Store" or is it trying to indicate that the chain was a "carriage trade store" (I could find few references to "carriage trade stores" in Google). Eli lilly (talk) 13:10, 24 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Burdines catered to a wealthier clientele than Sears or J.C. Penney. The phrase "carriage trade" is fairly commonly used to describe a store catering to the well-off. Horologium t-c 01:48, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Founding
Any questions about my edit, please refer to thislink. Thanks, VictorianMutant (talk) 05:12, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Burdines was not acquired by Macy's
Burdines was merged with Macy's not acquired by it. Much like the other regional department stores owned by Federated Retail Holdings the store was renamed Burdines-Macy's in 2003. Then in 2005 Burdines along with the other stores was consolidated into Macy's because Federated decided to make the store a national brand.

Matthew Cantrell (talk) 16:21, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

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The Florida Store
Do you guys remember Burdines being called "the Florida store", I remember the stores branded as "Burdines Florida" prior to Macy's Winnebaggo (talk) 23:32, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, that was their tagline in the 90's. ⇒   SWAT Jester   Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 23:53, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
 * https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=e659fce3bc92ad7c&sca_upv=1&rlz=1C1ONGR_enUS1098US1098&sxsrf=ACQVn0-6O8DJjCczwcX10ND8wuxz1ZAOHQ:1713657296284&q=burdines+the+florida+store&uds=AMwkrPu9mqiE7S-LDD3FJ_zB-E7cu6I1ihE2P2wgvGTgfq7lRC57jHcWGqySMOZHDcT9io-BrpcwtPpCNjqwnnO3D7yb-Z_FbRd11bcBoZrT35T_8DlPv788d7WpEVlfFkedWopVzLtbBU3HxugUaT70pMQTo09h6_jrBarUIirXM-xN1tamH-QauQdbIb6C2DSzN7-kGb3yeODWJJIc-nfebZ75ZLuTU6f0ZaA1sDgoiDQEwuuSkm9GGyb6HBRk_0dNNHKAjAWMsn_-djXh-vNACg_Sc4tIB4ocrQtvNnGgsjDroxi_dZebcdv3Bvf6PFh3WI8DCByhTE1JvC3DCE_YBpwvxVZrsA&udm=2&prmd=simnvbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9oaXz_tGFAxWNRTABHSfSCiwQtKgLegQIEhAB&biw=1920&bih=919&dpr=1#vhid=E5HhtC4cOZ3kpM&vssid=mosaic Winnebaggo (talk) 23:56, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Not sure what that's supposed to be telling me, but here's an example of The Florida Store in the branding. ⇒   SWAT Jester   Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 00:15, 21 April 2024 (UTC)