Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (died 1982)

Alfred S. Bloomingdale

American businessman (1916–1982)

Alfred Schiffer Bloomingdale was an American businessman who launched the credit card business Dine and Sign, was chairman of Diners Club, and became known as "father of the credit card." He was an heir to the Bloomingdale's department store fortune and the lover of murdered…