Word: linoleums
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Kohl's, on the other hand, is trying to soften its linoleum-floored, no-frills, discount image. Its new stores--and the 40 old ones on track to be remodeled--have a decidedly more feminine look. The merchandise is less cluttered and more invitingly displayed, some of it on mannequins, fixtures not previously seen in Kohl's. Fitting rooms are larger and more comfortable too. "Both chains have made a tremendous effort to freshen up their stores and their image," says Amanda Nicholson, assistant professor of retail management at Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management. "They've relaunched their...
...luggage store at Hollywood and Vine, along the brass-starred Walk of Fame. Lucille Ball bought her suitcases there. The neighborhood fell into disrepair in recent years, though, with homeless people camping out on trash-strewn streets. Blue's shop was looking shabby too, its window displays outmoded, its linoleum worn. But when the City of Los Angeles moved to condemn his building--not to build a school or a fire station but to make way for a glitzy $500 million private hotel and condo complex--Blue dug in for what would become a three-year legal fight to save...
...calls the antithesis of hip. The sleek modernism he pioneered with French designer Philippe Starck has been replaced by an opulent interior designed by the artist Julian Schnabel. The idea is to create a space that looks like an artist's studio. Instead of three-legged stools and linoleum floors, there are deep velvet sofas, stuccoed walls and Giacometti-style cast-bronze doorknobs...
...Enter the main door and it appears that you are in any slightly threadbare public school office - with linoleum floors and faded paint on the walls. Upstairs you find classrooms and more offices used to administer a 500-student tutoring program. Every evening and on Saturdays students from 4th grade to 6th grade drawn from underprivileged neighborhoods all over the city stream into the classrooms, where they are taught (by both Opus Dei and non Opus Dei teachers) math, reading and science. The tutoring program was started by Opus Dei and is run by a nonprofit foundation and separate board...
Then I saw the hostess. She was hunched over on the linoleum with a paper towel in both hands, scrubbing with determination at a spot on the floor. I walked over to her, my palms a bit damp with sweat. A lot was riding on this encounter...