Word: cataloger
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...retail, the selling of porn has become less lurid. Vivid is happy to peddle videotapes in a more Main Street manner through the Adam & Eve catalog, which is mailed to 2.5 million people a month, and Tower and Virgin record stores, where the "Vivid girls" have done signings. Castle Superstores, a chain of eight Wal-Mart-size outlets in the West, is trying to bring a sense of class to the business. By getting rid of peep shows and strippers, the Castle stores have been able to attract a clientele that is nearly 50% couples, much higher than...
...amusing anecdote with moral overtones, but Mount liked to go a little further than that, embedding political messages in his work. These, naturally, have become catnip to recent American scholars striving to excavate social issues from art. It may be, as art historian Elizabeth Johns argues in the catalog, that Mount's best-known picture--Farmers Nooning, 1836, with its strongly, even nobly, realized figure of a black laborer taking his siesta on a pile of hay while a boy in a tam-o'-shanter mischievously tickles his ear with a grass stalk--is an allegory of the delusive promises...
...suggested that the Internet will rapidly replace the 42,000 shopping centers in the U.S. Several years ago, soothsayers were predicting that catalog sales would cause the demise of shopping centers. But in 1997 catalogs accounted for $81 billion in retail sales--and shopping centers racked up more than $1 trillion. Shopping has always been a sensory experience; people like to touch what they buy. The shopping-center industry thrives and will survive because it provides the best consumer interaction with goods and services. JOHN RIORDAN, President International Council of Shopping Centers New York City...
...even as Spiegel has jumped into the electronic world, other giant retailers have not. Sears, for instance, is taking a more cautious approach. Though it put a catalog of Craftsman tools online last fall, it isn't rushing to build a webstore. "We think it has to be a profitable channel for plans to add any new merchandise for sale," says Paula Davis, a spokesperson for the retailer. But is Sears missing an opportunity? It has already missed Lisa Fontes, a 36-year-old Massachusetts psychologist who went to sears.com last month hoping to buy a freezer. The Sears site...
Barnes & Noble has been an object lesson to the rest of the retail world, where everyone seems to have a Net commerce story these days. "In many ways this is what we've been doing for nearly 100 years," says Randy Heiple, vice president of advertising production for catalog giant Spiegel Inc., which ventured online in 1995 and has been ravenously growing ever since. Today the Net accounts for less than 5% of the Spiegel catalog's overall sales, but that share has grown fivefold or more in each of the past three years; sales and circulation of Spiegel...