Alexander Turney Stuart

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2 mentions 1 recordings first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2 Jul ↑2 vs the 6 months before

Irish‑born retailer who introduced fixed‑price department stores

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Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · America’s First Billionaires — The Forgotten Era Before ... · 57:07 · 2 Jul
…Stuart arrived in New York in 1823 at the age of 20, carrying a modest inheritance from his grandfather.…
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Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · America’s First Billionaires — The Forgotten Era Before ... · 56:51 · 2 Jul
…But this is how retail commerce had functioned for essentially all of recorded human history, including in the United States as late as the 1840s, and the person who changed it was a dry goods merchant from County Antrim, Ireland, named Alexander Turney Stuart.…
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