Word: nordstrom
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...truth universally acknowledged that Nordstrom stores have wrapped up the title for top-of-the-line customer service. They will take back returns with a smile, hail you a cab and send out a salesclerk and tailor with armloads of clothes if you're too busy to go shopping. If it's footwear you're after, Nordstrom's vast shoe sections boast up to 150,000 pairs from sizes 4 to 21. "I really like Nordstrom," says Kelly Chandler, 28, a marketing specialist at a Seattle radio station who has shopped at the fashion retailer's flagship store since...
...this beloved chain of upscale, family-run emporiums, which has 83 stores in 17 states from Washington to Virginia, has been struggling to reverse recent slides in its profits and stock price. Shoppers still rush to new Nordstrom stores, which have been opening at the rate of four a year, but sales at some older ones have been slumping. Despite its reputation for catering to customers' desires, Nordstrom (1996 sales: $4.5 billion) has been slow to jump on hot retailing trends and appreciate fully the passion of Americans for brand names and logos. "You might still have [Nordstrom] as your...
Such defections have hacked away at Nordstrom's bottom line. The company's profits, which rose in double digits through most of the 1980s, have fallen for two straight years--tumbling 18.6% in 1995 and an additional 10.7% last year. The recent fourth quarter, which included the all-important holiday season, was particularly gloomy for Nordstrom, as sales dipped 1.3% at company stores that had been open 14 months or longer...
...lipstick called Vanity. Hard Candy has one called Porno and another called Navel. But for names that really scream grotesque, it's tough to beat Urban Decay, whose new fall colors for lips, eyes and nails include Rust, Gash, Gangrene, Vapor and Toxin. Surprisingly, no less a store than Nordstrom's has bought the line, which is selling best in its Mall of America store. Here's what the ghastly set is wearing...
...consultants" offering "pre-owned," "nearly new" and "off-lease" autos at nonnegotiable, uniform prices. Driver's Mart plans to sell the reconditioned cars complete with warranties and 30-day return policies. "When you think of shopping for a car," urges Driver's Mart president Thomas Eggleston, "think Home Depot, Nordstrom. That's a switch...