Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enter into Geoffrey Beene's one and only shop, located on a relatively unhurried patch of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, is to experience one man's extraordinary sense of rebellion and restraint. A small fraction of the size of the grand retail showplaces that line Madison Avenue one block to the east (Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani), Beene's store, which he visits daily, isn't meant to stand as a monument to its creator. At 70, Beene, unlike his peers, offers no secondary, lower-priced line (his clothes range from $1,500 to more than $10,000), no logoed handbags...
Changes are on view at your now friendly post office, or should we say postal retail outlet. Some 700 of the system's 33,000 post offices have morphed from bank-vault blandness into boutiques that sell such items as hats, neckties and Bugs Bunny trinkets while still providing a full line of postal services. The truly postally obsessed can choose a Pony Express sweatshirt or infant gear emblazoned with the words JUST DELIVERED. And customers are buying. "When a store replaces a post office, there is more than a 10% increase in revenues," says Nancy Wood, a postal-marketing...
...despite criticism from the likes of Crouch, Tealuxe has had phenomenal success. Bruce Fernie, owner and chair of Consumer Retail Inc., whose business includes Tealuxe, is aiming for large-scale expansion...
Last night, representatives of PSLM argued against a number of planned retail and residential developments at a meeting of the Central Square Planning Board...
According to an e-mail circulated by PSLM in advance of the meeting, Holmes Realty Trust plans to knock down 20 stores and restaurants in Central Square in order to build "scores of high rent apartments, chain store retail outlets and a mall of sorts...