Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...topnotch independent clothing manufacturer whose buyers have also attended the Paris openings follows the same routine, except that he usually makes thousands of copies and sells to smaller retail stores. He it is who is responsible for the fact, that, within 30 days of the original showings, every shopgirl in the land is wearing a cheap imitation of what is the best Paris style...
Located in the heart of Manhattan's retail shopping district, a few doors north of Lord & Taylor, Best & Co. and Franklin Simon and across the street from Arnold Constable & Co., the Wendel mansion and grounds were appraised last April at $4,500,000. S. H. Kress & Co. announced that they would replace the gloomy old house with the finest store in their system. But competition will be close at hand. A block up Fifth Avenue is F. W. Woolworth's famed Store No. 1000, opened in 1918 and stocked with quality goods to attract sophisticated Fifth Avenue shoppers...
...England as its province, Standard Oil of New Jersey got New Jersey and the Middle Atlantic States and each agreed to keep out of the other's territory. Standard of New Jersey was the first to step out of bounds; in 1929 it acquired Beacon Oil Co. with retail outlets in New York and New England. Last week Standard Oil of New York (now Socony-Vacuum) seemed on the point of retaliating by crossing the Hudson River to sell Socony products in New Jersey. Ostensible reason: New Yorkers motoring into New Jersey through the Hudson Tunnel and over...
Vice President Jack Straus of R. H. Macy & Co. : I look for a further concentration of the retail business in big stores and mail order houses. There are probably more jobs to fill than there are trained people to fill them...
...only furniture exhibit but it is the most important. A competing show at Marshall Field & Co.'s huge Merchandise Mart housed 53 exhibitors and Manhattan's show which closed a fortnight ago was a huge success with 406. The Furniture Mart opened with 600. There the big retail stores select suites (pronounced "suits" by most of the trade) for display in the autumn, when the public does most of its furniture shopping. The professional buyers who last week smiled, frowned, scratched their heads, slapped feather mattresses and dusted armchairs with the seat of their pants may not actually...