Lazarus eventually opened three "Capri" shops, but they were later converted to limited-assortment Lazarus stores. In the mid-1970s Federated opened its "Capri" shops, off-mall Lazarus stores that budget store goods. In 1967, Federated opened its Gold Circle discount department store division in Columbus, locating stores directly across from Lazarus stores at Northland, Eastland and Westland malls. In 1989, Lazarus' sprawling downtown Columbus flagship store became one of the three anchors of Columbus City Center mall, when developer Taubman Centers constructed a pedestrian skywalk to it over South High Street.įederated experimented with several different formats in the Lazarus division. Block Company of Indianapolis, Indiana (including Wren's, Springfield, Ohio) and Herpolsheimer's of Grand Rapids, Michigan from Allied Stores and incorporated them into Lazarus. The new division adopted the Lazarus nameplate, while assuming Shillito–Rike's headquarters in Cincinnati. Eventually expanding into Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1973 and Huntington, West Virginia, in 1981 in 1986 Lazarus merged with fellow Federated division Shillito–Rike's, itself the result of 1982 merger between Shillito's (John Shillito Co.) and Dayton, Ohio-based Rike's, acquired by Federated in 1959. Primarily operating in central Ohio, Lazarus dominated its market, driving the last of its traditional rivals out of business by 1982. Those who worked at Lazarus were not called employees, but associates.įormer Lazarus flagship store in Downtown Columbus successfully lobbied President Franklin Roosevelt to permanently fix Thanksgiving as the fourth Thursday in November, ensuring a stable timetable for the official beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Lazarus developed or was an early adopter of many shopping innovations such as "one low price" (no bargaining necessary, earlier implemented by the John Wanamaker Store ), first department store escalators in the country, first air-conditioned store in the country, and Fred Lazarus Jr. Bloomingdale Brothers joined the company in 1930.
The company acquired the John Shillito Company of Cincinnati in 1928 (established in 1830), and a year later, was one of the four founding members of Federated Department Stores (along with Williams Filene's Sons Co. (1850–1917) and Ralph Lazarus (1852–1903) joined the business and added many innovative marketing techniques. By 1870, with improvements to the industry in the mass manufacture of men's uniforms for the Civil War, the family business expanded to include ready-made men's civilian clothing, and eventually, a complete line of merchandise. (formerly Federated Department Stores).įamily patriarch Simon Lazarus (1808–1877) opened a one-room men's clothing store in downtown Columbus in 1851. Simon Lazarus, founder of what was to become The F&R Lazarus & Co., which blossomed into Macy's, Inc.
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