Online sales boost 127-year-old store

Marquette, Mich. (population 21,532), on the shore of Lake Superior, is seven to eight hours from Chicago, Detroit and Minneapolis, and three-and-a-half from Green Bay. The 127-year-old Getz’s Clothiers, based in downtown Marquette, has been able to thrive in this remote location because of its online marketplace.

Robert “Rock” Getz, 62, grandson of founder Louis Getz, owns the business with his wife, Carol; their daughter Tina Young; and Rock’s cousin Richard Caden, 73.

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