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STELLA GETS HER GROOVE AT H&M Hot on the heels of last year's sellout success with Karl Lagerfeld, Swedish retail giant H&M will introduce next week another one-off line of hip fashion items, designed this time by Stella McCartney. Get ready for drainpipe wool pants, slouchy sweaters and silk spaghetti-strap dresses...
...masses on television or via free viewing sites like Yahoo! Music. Things started to change in 2003 with the release of the first three Directors Label DVDs, each a collection of videos from some of the best directors in the business. Last week, iTunes took music video retail to the next level, charging $1.99 for a single video which can then be downloaded onto one’s $300+ video iPod. Whether this will ultimately result in higher budgets (which can presently exceed a cool million for a three-minute clip) or higher quality videos remains to be seen...
More than 50 people met in Cambridge last night to discuss the future of Harvard Square, expressing nostalgia for the Square of the 1960s and a desire for reinvigoration of unique local businesses. During the two-hour meeting, held in Christ Church, local business owners analyzed the retail store makeup and covered issues ranging from rents to parking to Harvard Square’s public image. Arranged by City Councillor Brian Murphy, the meeting was intended to compile a list of the needs and desires of business owners. Businesses owners called for free parking, lower rents, more greenery, the removal...
...idea behind the chain of stores known as Incredible Universe was simple: bigger is better, and much bigger is much better. In the past four years, these "gigastores" have sprouted up in the American exurban landscape, each boasting five football fields of retail space crammed with just about everything that could remotely be interpreted as "electronic...
...Tandy, which also owns Radio Shack and Computer City, acknowledged that Incredible Universe was really an incredible flop and pulled the plug on the entire 17-store operation. The closings, plus the stores' losses, totaled some $230 million and completely wiped out Tandy's profits for 1996. "Maybe," says retail analyst Lynn Detrick of Williams MacKay Jordan & Co. of Houston, "this does suggest that you can take it too far, that stores can be too big and inconvenient." What an incredible thought...