A dry goods shop specializes in selling what product?
Dry goods Dry goods Dry goods is a historic term describing the type of product line a store carries, which differs by region. 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 area's needs. This continued to be
Powers Dry Goods Maplewood, Minnesota Maplewood Mall. The first store was located in the center of the Minneapolis shopping district at 215 Nicollet Avenue. Powers Dry Goods The Powers Dry Goods Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota was a department store chain that its peak consisted of 7 locations. Powers was founded in Minneapolis as the S.E. Olson Co. in 1881, but was acquired and renamed by St. Paul dry-goods merchants Alanzo J. and Fred Powers. It was itself acquired in the 1920s by Associated Dry Goods. In 1985, it was acquired from Associated Dry Goods by The L.S. Donaldson Company (also of Minneapolis, a