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Though July is not normally a strong month for merchants, a number of the bigger retailers managed to ring up good sales on selected items. Unusually hot summer weather had Sears, Roebuck and Co. customers in Chicago snapping up air conditioners and fans. At Macy's in New York City last week, business was brisk in men's clothing and home electronics...
...Corp, knows that the way to the shopper's heart is still through the pocketbook. Most of the 1,750 stores around the country that show off the company's big red K are riding out the recession relatively well, and the discount chain may displace Sears, Roebuck and Co. as the U.S.'s leading retailer...
...never approved of my fancy apartment or my having a valet at the age of 23. And since he still wore baggy, ready-made suits from Sears, Roebuck, my custom-made clothes also offended his sense of prudent frugality...
...plan seemed innocent enough. Sears, Roebuck officials asked parents to send in recent snapshots of their children for possible use in the 1981 spring/summer catalogue; ten boys and ten girls in four categories (ages one to six and seven to 16) would be picked by a panel of hired judges. "We thought it would generate some interest not only in sending in entries but also in coming into our stores to pick up entry blanks," says Robert O. Jones, national director of catalogue sales for the giant retailing chain. Sears expected about 15,000 entries. But envelopes began pouring...
Speidel, a division of Textron Inc., has an elaborate array of moisturizers, conditioners and scents. Fabergé Inc. has its Brut line of men's toiletries. Even conservative Chesebrough-Ponds, virtually the Sears, Roebuck of the cold cream world, is emphasizing rugged outdoor men in its commercials for hand lotions. The Coty company, which for years has offered Musk For Men cologne, is preparing to launch another entry into the sweet-smelling sweepstakes, Mark...