Also known as ZCMI
thumb|Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI), 1910 '''Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI''') was an American department store chain. It was founded in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 9, 1868, by Brigham Young. For many years it used the slogan, "America's First Department Store."
via Wikidata · CC0
~5 min read
thumb|Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI), 1910 '''Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI''') was an American department store chain. It was founded in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 9, 1868, by Brigham Young. For many years it used the slogan, "America's First Department Store."
==History== Even though the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) had been headquartered in Salt Lake City for some twenty years by that time, they were despised by the surrounding community, as Young had disparaged non-Mormon merchants who had engaged in price gouging on necessities, and encouraged boycotting these businesses in 1866. Business owners who were LDS Church members were routinely charged higher prices by wholesalers who discovered they were dealing with church members.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).