Word: loehmann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forget Filene's Basement, forget Loehmann's. The ultimate in off-price shopping last week was to be found in Peachland, N.C. There, under the open sky, lay some 120 tons of used clothing at a price buyers could not refuse: free...
...time she died at 88 in 1962, "Momma" Loehmann was a force in the retailing of women's clothing...
Today, with warehouse headquarters store and central warehouse located in The Bronx, Loehmann's is spread over 25 states in 65 stores, nearly 40 of which opened during the past ten years. The chain had sales this year of about $270 million...
...Loehmann's rigorously no-frills outlets carry no shoes or lingerie. Credit cards are not accepted, nor are returns. Salespeople provide little service. Dressing areas are communal, mirrored rooms with harsh lighting, places of pandemonium on weekends. Women enter, check modesty at the door, and frantically try on designer fashions with no labels but with thinly disguised codes on price tags: RL is Ralph Lauren, GEB Geoffrey Beene, BLA Bill Blass...
Prices usually run 33% to 50% under those at traditional retailers for accessories, skirts and dresses, right on up to discounted sable coats for $25,000. Loehmann's was sold in 1980 to a group of private investors for $68 million, in cash, of course, and then in May of this year to Associated Dry Goods for $96 million, again in cash. Associated's new ownership of Loehmann's amounts to a princess's consorting with a shopgirl; its other properties include New York's Lord & Taylor, one of the most dressed-up stores...