Customers come and go from the Famous-Barr Department Store in downtown St. Louis after the announcement that Federated Department Stores, Inc. would buy May Department Stores for $11 billion in cash and stock on February 28, 2005. May is based in St. Louis and operated Famous-Barr, Lord & Taylor and Marshall Field’s stores. Federated is based in Cincinatti and operates Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI
