Editing Department store (section)

=== First Australian department stores ===
Australia is notable for having the longest continuously operating department store, [[David Jones (department store)|David Jones]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Citation |last=Walsh |first=G. P. |title=Jones, David (1793–1873) |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jones-david-2279 |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en |access-date=19 December 2022}}</ref> The first David Jones department store was opened on 24 May 1838, by Welsh born immigrant David Jones in a "large and commodious premises" on the corner of [[George Street, Sydney|George]] and [[Barrack Street]]s in [[Sydney]], only 50 years after the foundation of the colony. Expanding to a number of stores in the various states of Australia, David Jones is the oldest continuously operating department franchise in the world.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Ravelli |first=Louise |date=April 2022 |title=Ode to a lost icon, David Jones |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17504813211073195 |journal=Discourse & Communication |language=en |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=269–282 |doi=10.1177/17504813211073195 |s2cid=246463089 |issn=1750-4813|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Other department stores in Australia include [[Grace Bros]] founded in 1885, now merged with [[Myer]] which was founded in 1900.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Loy-Wilson |first=Sophie |date=January 2016 |title=The Gospel of Enthusiasm: Salesmanship, Religion and Colonialism in Australian Department Stores in the 1920s and 1930s |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022009414561826 |journal=Journal of Contemporary History |language=en |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=91–123 |doi=10.1177/0022009414561826 |s2cid=145570190 |issn=0022-0094|url-access=subscription }}</ref>