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Clerks in the Filene's men's store said yesterday that they were still selling a full line of Farah products. The Filene's men's buyer was unavailable for comment...
...exclusion of buyer's secretaries...
Another Chapin innovation was the "Buyer Protection Plan," which gives AMC owners a warranty covering every car part except tires. The company will fix any faulty part for free during the first year, and on '73 models offers a second year's coverage for $150. Both GM and Ford emulate that plan on their '73 cars, though neither offers protection that goes so far as AMC's. The AMC warranty won the praise of industry watchers as divergent as Presidential Consumer Adviser Virginia Knauer and Mac Gordon, outspoken editor of the dealer newsletter Motor News Analysis...
...general air of affluence: Neiman-Marcus, avid to appear as the champion of the most conspicuous consumption imaginable, includes in its Christmas catalogue an offering extraordinary even by its standards. It will sell plaster dummies priced at $3,000 each, with a limit of two to a customer; the buyer must lie down for half an hour while a complete plaster mold is made of his face and body, and store men record him laughing and saying yes (or crying and saying no) on a tape that is inserted into the dummy. What consumers can do with the dummies after...
ROBERT ROSS has sold $11 million worth of products from Communist countries in the U.S. since his first trip to Moscow in 1970. As head of East-Europe Import Export, Inc., based in Manhattan, he has another $100 million worth of contracts under discussion. Acting mostly as a buyer, Ross represents 65 American firms in Russia and Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, he is sole sales agent in the U.S. for the Soviet auto and electronics industries and Rumanian auto and petroleum exports. This year he introduced a $3,195 Jeep-like Rumanian vehicle into the U.S. He is talking with executives...