Expect More. Pay Less

After Japanese leaders flatly rejected the Potsdam Declaration, President Truman authorized use of the atomic bomb anytime after August 3, 1945. On the clear morning of August 6, the first atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, was dropped on the city of Hiroshima.

The American use of atomic bombs against Japan in 1945 led to an arms race between the US and the Soviet Union. It did strike fear into Stalin’s heart, but that fear motivated him to push the Soviets to catch up with the United States in an arms race thereby starting the Cold War.

Brian Cornell is board chairman and CEO of Target Corp. He is responsible for Target’s global business, including the company’s more than 1,900 U.S. stores, digital properties and more than 350,000 team members.

Brian Cornell (Aug 12, 2014–)

Target’s CEO made almost $20 million in 2020. Target CEO Brian Cornell’s total compensation in 2020 came in at $19.75 million, up about $800,000 over 2019.

May Company purchased the stores prior to May’s own acquisition by Federated Department Stores, which rebranded all the Marshall Field’s stores as Macy’s….Dayton’s.

In 1994 the Macy’s department store chain joined the “Federated Department Stores” holding company. In 2007, “Federated Department Stores” was renamed Macy’s, Inc….Bloomingdale’s.

Federated

Macy’s Inc.

Generally speaking, Nordstrom is classified as a first-level (luxury) Department Store meaning per product their MSRP’s and brands are of a higher level then Macy’s. However there are several items such like Kitchenaid for example they both sell. When items are competitive, Nordstrom does price match.

The real story of how the wealthy couple — 67-year-old Isidor Straus was the co-owner of Macy’s department store and a former U.S. Congress member— chose to remain aboard the doomed ship so that others may live is one their great-grandson Paul A. Kurzman knows well.