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...Neiman! On Marcus! On Schwartz's and Saks...
...MARCUS OTTERSTAD St. Paul
Bogged Down. Ocean Spray grew bigger than any other cranberry cooperative because Founder Marcus Urann, figuring that housewives were tired of stewing fresh cranberries, decided to can some cranberry sauce. Housewives ate it up. Even so, cranberries sold mostly around holidays, and sales grew no faster than the population. The industry suffered its greatest setback in 1959, when the Government seized a few cranberries sprayed with aminotriazole weed killer and announced that cranberries so contaminated might cause cancer. That Thanksgiving and Christmas, and in the months that followed, the public reluctance to buy cranberries almost ruined the industry...
...July-but merchants feel relieved that the advances have continued. Across the U.S., one big department store after another is reporting sales gains over last year: up 15% for Atlanta's Rich's, 18% for San Francisco's Gump's, 6% for Dallas' Neiman-Marcus, and 5% for New York's Gimbels (despite the newspaper strike). Even more significant than the figures is the attitude of shoppers. "Figures aren't our guiding light," says President Bernard Sakowitz of Houston's Sakowitz Inc. "We go more by the climate of the people...
...Stanley Marcus, L.H.D., president of Nei man-Marcus Stores. Merchant prince in the best tradition of the term...