Talk:Main Department Store
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Gum!? Who would call it "Gum?"
- It's an acronym, think CREEP. 68.39.174.238 04:30, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
The article talks about several stores within the building. Wouldn't that make it a mall, not a department store?
- Perhaps it would now be classed as a "mall" (in America at least), but when it was built, Russia (or the USSR as it was) was under communism, so it was just one big, state run, department store containing all that the government thought that the people would want to buy. Of course, with the collapse of the soviet republic, and the fairly rapid introduction of capitalism, many different brands and shops have moved into the GUM building (in Moscow). So really, times have changed since the building was built, but it still reatins, to an extent, its old charcter of being one big shop, although it is now split up between brands. Martinp23 20:07, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
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About ten years ago, during a game of Trivial Persuit, I responded to the question "What is the largest department store in the world?" with GUM. The "correct" response was, of course, "Macy's, NYC". I still think I'm right. The article could benefit from some actual size information -- square footage, etc. And a comparison to Macy's probably wouldn't be unencyclopedic. — MusicMaker5376 17:01, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
