What three things did department stores use to garner customers

The three things that they did are:

- Create a time period of discount.
This happens mostly on holiday seasons, where many people have the intention to buy things as gift for their loved ones.
- They use attractive sales representatives to attract attention from the customers.
- They create a membership for the department stores and offer some beneffits for each members that buy from their stores.

The growth of the empire continued to increase their confidence.

Both countries had to aprove annexation.