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.
This emporium was a first in North American retailingâbilled as the worldâs first department store. Wanamaker hated that term, insisting that it be called a âcomposite storeâ. (Thereâs also some question as to whether it even merits that title. New York Cityâs Iron Palace opened in 1862; the Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution in Salt Lake City was founded in 1868.) Wanamakerâs âcomposite storeâ was a marvel.