It's in the Bag Activity

It's in the Bag!

Take this short quiz about Macy's and discover your retail knowledge.

Multiple Choice

Walter H. Debner is credited with developing the shopping bag in 1912. He came up with the concept to enable his customers...

• To carry more merchandise.

• To line their waste bins with the bag.

• To become “Bag Ladies.”

• To keep their hands free so they could shop more.

Multiple Choice

The Deubner Shopping Bag consisted of a paper bag with a cord running through it for strength. The bags sold for 5 cents each and within 3 years of patenting it, sales reached...

• 75 shopping bags a year.

• 100,000 shopping bags a year.

• 900 shopping bags a year.

• 1 million shopping bags a year.

Multiple Choice

One of the nation’s most successful and respected retail institutions, R.H. Macy’s, was founded by Rowland Hussey Macy in what year?

• 1858

• his hope of one day attaining stardom in motion pictures.

Multiple Choice

As a symbol of success, Macy adopted the famous red star as the company icon and used it on the store’s shopping bags as a tribute to...

• His mother who was born in the Lone Star State of Texas.

• His hope of one day attaining stardom in motion pictures.

• His inspirational grandfather and the star shaped pinky ring hat he wore.

• The star that guided him while lost at sea.

Multiple Choice

Macy’s set new holiday standards in 1862 by...

• introducing the first in-store Santa Claus.

• offering free gift wrap with purchase.

• introducing the Lay-A-Way plan.

• providing childcare for its shoppers.

Multiple Choice

In 1924, to help celebrate their new American heritage, Macy’s immigrant employees organized...

• an international fashion show.

• a Thanksgiving Day parade.

• an international clothing department.

• an American heritage society.

Multiple Choice

Macy’s uses ____________ shopping bags a year.

• 2 million

• 43 million

• 21 million

• 50 million

Website

Check out some cleaver bags linked below!

TIME TO GET CREATIVE

• Get together with your shopping partner to create a shopping bag.

• You will physically create the bag along with providing some written information. Your written information can just be on a sheet of blank paper.

• Make sure you read the directions and follow them completely.

  You have 30 minutes before you share your bag with the class. Good luck!