DISAPPOINTED shoppers waved goodbye to an iconic department store loved in the 80s after it was reduced to rubble. The once thriving Debenhams site, in Cardiff, had stood for nearly 40-years i… ...

Throughout the ’80s, department stores (including Hudson’s Bay Company) heavily policed their men’s restrooms and even recruited “security guards and undercover police” to lure cruisers.

On Sunday, a month after it marked the 355th anniversary of its founding, the Bay, as it is commonly known, is permanently closing its 80 department stores throughout Canada.

Onscreen, the department store is still these things. It's always been a prime location for upward mobility, stories of identity lost, acquired or (for comedy's sake), borrowed.

The department store, which was founded in Bournemouth in 1881, will close its shop in the Dolphin Centre in Poole on May 31 and is now offering up to 75% as part of a closing down sale. It comes ...

If the store was open, that’s where you’d find her. Her son had gone off to fight in the Second World War and hadn’t come home. She was certain he was alive and that, one day, he’d return.