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 [See More…]
