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Step Saver. In Gimbel Brothers' Philadelphia store shoppers will soon shop by television. Within a week, televised shows of merchandise from various departments will be run in the store's auditorium (seating capacity 500), and in 22 special "tele-sites" throughout the store. Thus shoppers, relaxing in easy chairs, can select merchandise, buy it when the show ends...
...self-congratulatory advertisements last week, Gimbel's Department Store in Manhattan announced a sale of Army DDT sprayers good for murdering anything from spiders to tsetse-flies. Modell's Sporting Goods Stores advertised Army sleeping bags ("warm as toast") for $5.95. From warehouses all over the U.S., $600,000,000 worth of war-hoarded Government goods were on their way to civilian stores. And these would be just a drop out of the enormous bucket...
Pancho Villa, famed Mexican revolutionary of a generation ago, would have been proud to know that Gimbel's Manhattan department store put his pearl-handled six-shooter on sale...
...Allied Stores, May Department Stores, R. H. Macy & Co. and Gimbel Bros, are larger...
...Allied Stores (mainly a holding company) still has a larger gross from its small department stores and small-town chains. Gimbel's', solely an operating company, is only in bigger cities, as Manhattan, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee. Gimbel-owned Saks stores are in Manhattan (two stores), Beverly Hills, Chicago, Detroit, Miami Beach and Palm Peach.There has been no Gimbel-owned store in Vincennes since...