Macy’s vs Gimbels - The Frontiersman and the Whaler | 1

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It's the mid 1800s and two very different young men set out in the world to make their fortunes. A young boy from Nantucket spends four years at sea on a whaling ship, the other becomes an itinerant peddler in the wilds of Indiana. These two adventurers, R.H. Macy and Adam Gimbel, eventually settle down as merchants, and open their own dry goods stores. They don’t know each other yet, but, as they each grow their businesses, they inadvertently create what we now know as the department store.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to business wars at free on Amazon music.
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0:07.0	It's 1838 aboard a whaling ship 30 miles north of Cape Horn, Chile.
0:19.4	Below deck in the stinking cruise quarters, grimy ruffians crowd around 15-year-old Roland
0:24.9	H. Macyp.
0:26.3	Smoke and curses fill the air.
0:29.1	Macy is the lowest swabby here.
0:31.5	He's just 5'1", less than 120 pounds, and his fellow shipmates tease him endlessly.
0:38.4	They call him chum as in bucket of chum.
0:42.1	That's why he's decided to get a tattoo to prove in blood that he's as tough as they
0:46.3	are.
0:47.3	Little RH Macy always has something to prove.
0:52.0	He plants his right palm down on a wooden chest.
0:55.1	I go ahead and do it.
0:57.8	I'm ready.
0:58.8	Chum won't be able to take it.
1:00.4	I bet he'll cry like a little girl.
1:03.7	Macy glairs back at his tauners.
1:06.3	Some are relatives from his native nantucket island in Massachusetts.
1:09.9	Devil take the lot of you.
1:11.3	I told you.
1:12.5	I want the red star.
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