Talk:The May Department Stores Company

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Would individuals who live in the respective markets of each of May's different department store banners be able to take photographs of the exteriors before all of the brands/banners are removed and converted to Macy's in August 2006? I think it would be a great addition to each of the articles to see the logos on the buildings before they are gone forever and changed nationwide. Thanks in advance! J2rome 04:08, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

This revision of 1/3/06 restores a great deal of historical material researched by anon user 68.251.34.112, transfered to Federated Department Stores, and then cleaned out of the Federated page by user Wackymacs. Department stores like Bon Marche and Filene's had connections with civic history and identity and this is more than corporate trivia. Look at the sentimental & outraged discussions over the disappearance of the Marshall Fields brand in Chicago. All this department-store history may or may not best belong on the May Company page but it should be revived somewhere, so I've done it here. --Lockley 03:23, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

• Looks good to me! — Wackymacs 21:45, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

While there is plenty of good information worth keeping in this article, better organization could greatly help the reader access it more easily. — ArkansasTraveler 22:04, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

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Additional information

I would like to see this article fleshed out a little bit with information about the company's other projects. For instance, the Eagle Stamp (trading stamp) program. NorthCoastReader (talk) 23:37, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

G. Fox brand missing

missing from the chronology is May's aquisition of Hartford based G. Fox est. 1847 at some point in 1965. In 1992 May Co would merge G. Fox with Boston based Filene's forming a northeast division. The Hartford offices were closed in this process, as well as the G. Fox flagship store in Hartford — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.9.57.232 (talk) 05:39, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page at this time. Please note that no evidence was presented to show that any particular name for the company is the WP:COMMONNAME; if this is revisited at some point in the future, please provide such evidence. Dekimasuよ! 23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

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The May Department Stores Company → May Department Stores – As recommended by WP:NCCORP, the common name should be used when possible. WikiRedactor (talk) 13:36, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

• Support – I see no reason to object. JE98 (talk) 22:18, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
• Disagree – The company had always refer to itself in advertizing (newspaper, bags, phone books) as "The May Company" or "The May Department Stores Company". 108.71.214.235 (talk) 08:53, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

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