How A Poor Quaker Boy Created Macy's -

Macy’s department store origin story is one of the most dramatic rags-to-riches tales in American business history — and almost nobody knows the real version. Before the Thanksgiving Day Parade, before the Herald Square flagship, before the iconic red star became one of the most recognized logos in retail, there was a Quaker boy from Nantucket who failed in business not once, not twice, but four times before he changed the face of American shopping forever. Rowland Hussey Macy grew up in a religious community that shunned excess, shipped out on a whaling vessel at fifteen, and came back with a tattoo that would one day become a global symbol. What drove a broke, repeatedly failed entrepreneur to try again in New York City when everything said to quit? The answer involves a gold rush, a radical new idea about how stores should treat customers, and a relentless obsession that most people would have abandoned years earlier. Subscribe for more stories about the unlikely founders behind the world’s most iconic brands.

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