Bruce Nordstrom, Who Helped Lead His Family’s Retail Empire, Dies at 90
Though he was the company’s president, he opted for joint leadership with family members as they made Nordstrom, starting as a string of shoe stores, into an international fashion retail brand.
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![Bruce Nordstrom in 2019. He was a grandson of the company’s founder, who started with a shoe store in Seattle in 1901.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/05/19/multimedia/00nordstrom_bruce-tfpj/00nordstrom_bruce-tfpj-jumbo.jpg?auto=webp)