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- Nov 07, 2020
Department Stores Quotes
What retail looked like, decade by decade.
These department stores quotes mix nostalgia with harder history, from a teenage holiday job wrapping gifts to one owner admitting the business was personally difficult to run. Personal shoppers being underused is a recurring complaint, echoed under Big.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back when I was 15 or 16, in Dallas there was a department store called Sanger-Harris. One holiday season, I got a job as a gift wrapper there. The others were all experts who did that job every year, and I was by far the youngest person, who was totally inexperienced. In those days, department stores around Christmastime were a total frenzy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more department stores are acting as the shop window for a range of retailers now, using space more efficiently to recreate the feel of the local market, creating new market opportunities for the small and the niche.
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- Nov 07, 2020