Obesity is a serious health concern in the United States. Obesity is described as a health condition in which one is severely overweight, and is divided into three categories: severe obesity, morbid obesity and super obesity.
The new Philadelphia store opened in 1911. When John Wanamaker died in 1922, his son Rodman was named sole inheritor of the retail business. Upon Rodman's death in 1928, the businesses were put into a trust, with family members as the beneficiaries. The Wanamaker trust sold the New York store in 1954.
Wanamaker's was the first department store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one of the first department stores in the United States. At its zenith in the early 20th century, Wanamaker had department stores, located both in Philadelphia, and two locations in New York City; at Fourth Avenue and Ninth Street, and the other at 770 Broadway.