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I may not be totally right about this, but the horse and carriage...some very high end stores had a desire to bring upper class shoppers to the store. I say this as my Husband's Grandmother was the manager of a B. Seigel store for 37 years. Going back in time (was not the horse and carriage) the store would send a limo to pick up some higher end shoppers to come to the store, and would "fancy them a light meal and strong drink" to entertain their shopping experience. I would tend to think stores back in the day with the horse and carriage would have considered bringing a "shopper" to the store would more than likely been standard procedures for the "well off" crowd. I would think maybe the horse and carriage is a symbol of "upper class" for marketing purposes as time passed.
Kind of like a "whale" in Las Vegas!