2018 BIG SHOW PREVIEW 16 A Century of Reporting on Retail F rom its founding as the National Retail Dry Goods Association in 1911, the National Retail Federation has served the interests of the retail industry through economic change and technological innovations its founders would have deemed more at place in science fiction than on the selling floor. STORES Magazine, NRF's member publication, has always delivered the information retail executives need to succeed. As STORES celebrates 100 years of publication this year, take a trip down memory lane with a selection of some of the distinctive covers STORES has sported over the past century. April 1949 February 1950 July 1949 May 1949 August 1950 September 1967 August 1949 October 1962 June 1960 December 1970 July 1985 June 1974 December 1993 April 1986 May 1967 June 1967 July 1976 September 1978 May 2005 December 2001