Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Musical Jubilee originated as a cruise-ship "entertainment." At last report, the St. James Theater was an chored at Manhattan's 246 West 44th St., but it may just possibly prove to be an ocean-going vessel...
What is this emporium? It is Bloomingdale's, the flashy department store on Manhattan's East Side. Now, as Christmas approaches, more than 300,000 shoppers weekly?some 60,000 on Saturday alone?surge through the store's eleven floors. While ogling the merchandise, they also eye each other. For Bloomingdale's is both a neighborhood center and celebrity hangout, a place where the next person a shopper bumps into (literally) may be either an acquaintance or someone familiar from a thousand newspaper photographs...
During the next four weeks, the pace will become even more exhausting for shoppers at the trendy Manhattan Bloomingdale's, the eleven other Bloomingdale's stores in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and the thousands of other department and specialty stores throughout the country. These are the weeks when retailers ring up a quarter to a third of their annual sales, the period that largely determines whether the year goes into merchants' ledgers as a success, like 1973, or a disaster, like...
...country increasingly are studying the phenomenal success of Federated Department Stores and especially its crown jewel, Bloomingdale's. Not every store, of course, can emulate Bloomingdale's specific techniques: ice cream made from Himalayan mangoes might not sell as well in the suburbs of Spokane as it does on Manhattan's East Side?especially not at $1.75 a pint. But any store can follow Bloomingdale's essential formula: first, know your customer, his age, affluence, customs, habits, tastes. Then set out to woo him with distinctive merchandise, flashy displays and a general aura of showmanship, all calculated to make shopping...
...Bloomingdale's full rein to exploit what it has long seen as its major market: young, affluent, fashion-conscious, traveled, professional people. They are attuned less to refrigerators and washing machines ("Bloomies" sells neither), more to clothes of fashion and quality, stereo equipment and wacky gadgetry for the compact Manhattan society of small apartments, crowded schedules and casual relationships. These consumers, to Bloomingdale's profit, go for such baubles as yogurt makers, $30 peanut-butter-making machines, "male chauvinist pig" neckties (30,000 sold so far) and even "Pet Rocks" that, at $4 each, roll over and play dead, sleep...