Context: Department stores today have sections that sell the following: clothing, furniture, home appliances, toys, cosmetics, gardening, toiletries, sporting goods, do it yourself, paint, and hardware and additionally select other lines of products such as food, books, jewelry, electronics, stationery, photographic equipment, baby products, and products for pets. Customers check out near the front of the store or, alternatively, at sales counters within each department. Some are part of a retail chain of many stores, while others may be independent retailers. In the 1970s, they came under heavy pressure from discounters. Since 2010, they have come under even heavier pressure from online stores such as Amazon.

Question: What sorts of departments might one see in a major department store?
Answer: clothing, furniture, home appliances, toys, cosmetics, gardening, toiletries, sporting goods

Question: Who started influencing department stores in the 1970's? 
Answer: discounters

Question: What has begun pressuring department stores in more recent years?
Answer: online stores such as Amazon.

Question: Other than at the check-out lanes at the front of a store, where may customers check out?
Answer: at sales counters within each department.

Question: What sorts of departments might one see in a minor department store?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who started influencing department stores in the 1990's?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who stopped influencing department stores in the 1970's?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What has stopped pressuring department stores in more recent years?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Other than at the check-out lanes at the front of a store, where can't customers check out?
Answer: Unanswerable