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...friendly environment is just what you get at Sephora, the successful French cosmetics chain that opened its first U.S. store in New York City this summer and plans to have 50 stores around the U.S. by the end of 1999. Thousands of square feet in size, Sephora stores are chicly decorated, easy-to-navigate bazaars for the sale of scores of brands of makeup and fragrance. The music is low, the lighting is flattering and the merchandise, much of which is helpfully arranged by category rather than brand, is out for the touching and taking. Salesclerks leave you alone unless...
Staring out from their photographs, they are the archetypal tycoons: one a steely-eyed Scot with a spade-shaped white beard; another a craggy, Ichabod Crane look-alike; the third a fat cat in striped pants with a watch chain strung across an ample paunch...
...first investment banker to realize that chain stores would one day dominate retailing, and he got rich by underwriting (and often controlling) such future powerhouses as S.S. Kresge (now K Mart) and Safeway Stores. He set up one of America's first wire houses--brokerage firms with branch offices in different cities connected to the main office by Teletype...
That morning Reuther and his colleagues suspected the day's events could escalate into something historic as they prepared to hand out organizing leaflets (slogan: "Unionism, Not Fordism") to the plant's workers. Reuther had put on his Sunday suit, complete with vest, gold watch and chain. He had invited newspapermen, priests and local officials to be witnesses...
...absolute necessity of basil in something every two weeks or so, I am not sure I have much choice. My food snobbery is clearly genetic. Whether it's nature or nurture is a moot point when I instinctively turn my nose up at the concept that any sort of chain--McDonald's, The Cheesecake Factory, Chili's, whatever--can get more than French fries right...