In 1846 an Irish immigrant in New York named Alexander Stewart opened a business called the Marble Dry-Goods Palace. By (0) … so, he gave the world something completely new – the department store. Before this, no-one (1) … tried to bring together such a wide range of goods (2) … a single roof. The business did very (3) … . It expanded rapidly and soon had (4) … staff of two thousand. For Stewart even that was not enough, (5) … . In 1862 he moved to an eight-storey building nearby, (6) … he renamed A.T. Stewart’s Cast Iron Palace. It was, (7) … for many years would remain, the largest shop in the world.