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...longer is the center of attention reserved for such hard goods as Craftsman tools, DieHard batteries and Kenmore appliances. Now the emphasis is on the color-coordinated, freshly fashioned displays of stylish clothes and jogging gear, modern furniture and gourmet cookware. While the likes of Bloomingdale's and Neiman-Marcus have long merchandised their wares with flair, the redesign and reorganization are a revolutionary departure for Sears. Says Joe Fragale, operating manager of the Oak Brook, Ill., store: "We had so many people think they were in the wrong store, we put up a sign YES! THIS IS SEARS...
...stuffers to such big-ticket items as television sets and refrigerators. This season's merry merchants expect holiday revenues to climb by a healthy 10%, after four years of slack sales. Shopkeepers feel confident because customers have got the spending itch so early this year. When Dallas-based Neiman-Marcus opened its first Chicago outlet on Nov. 5, some 40,000 shoppers crowded into the aisles in one day. Says General Manager Lawrence Gore: "It's phenomenal. It's crazy every...
...palatial Texas Stadium, former Cowboy Quarterback-turned-Broadcaster Don Meredith was missing the seedy and inner-city Cotton Bowl, where the Cowboys used to play, and generally lamenting the passing of time. "I made up a saying once," he said. " 'All we gotta do is go down to Neiman-Marcus and buy us a pound of culture and twelve talents.' The attitude was, whatever you want, just go to Neiman's and buy it. They had it right there on the shelf. I think Texas Stadium is Dallas' attempt to buy a pound of culture...
...David Neiman, who plays the hammered dulcimer at the Church St. stop, said he thinks the scheduling should be expanded. "People then would have time to stop for a minute and listen," he explained. "At rush hour they are in too much of a rush...
...billion the year before. That made Wal-Mart the nation's ninth-largest shopkeeper, well behind the likes of Sears (sales: $30 billion) and K mart ($17 billion), but ahead of such old-time retailers as R.H. Macy and Carter Hawley Hale, parent of ultrachic Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman-Marcus...