Talk:Dry goods

-- history and notable families -- There may be many more notable things to be said about dry goods, including its role in the settlement of the American West, along with the distribution channels of which the railroads were an integral part. Perhaps one can list some notable families whose fortunes were made in the dry goods business, including the Bush family fortune. Vonkje (talk) 14:04, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

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Expand the lead section, suggestions

I was hoping for some input on expanding the lede and wanted to know if others had ideas, thanksC. W. Gilmore (talk) 13:18, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

The term comes from the textile trade, and the shops appear to have spread with the mercantile trade across the British colonial territories (and former territories) as a means of bringing supplies and manufactured goods out to the far flung settlements and homesteads that were spreading around the globe starting in the mid-1700s. These stores began by selling supplies and textiles goods to remote communities and many customized the products they carried to the areas needs. This continued to be the trend well into the early 1900s; but with the rise of the department stores and catalog sales, the decline of the dry goods stores began. C. W. Gilmore (talk) 13:51, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

It seem as though the further away from large metropolitan areas one live, the more important the local dry goods store was to the life of the small, rural communities and the longer these types of stores stayed alive and active.C. W. Gilmore (talk) 14:59, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

If there are not objections I would like to propose a new lead (lede) section.C. W. Gilmore (talk) 18:11, 21 October 2017 (UTC)