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Women's History on Trial: The Case of EEOC v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.--by Ann Lane, University of Virginia. Sever Hall...
...expand its fashion lines, but in stores better known for Kenmore washing machines, Craftsman tools and Weatherbeater paints, women's fashions have suffered a persistent image problem. Says Kurt Barnard, publisher of the Retail Marketing Report: "Ask the average woman if she would care to wear a Sears Roebuck cocktail dress. It's an oxymoron...
...labels-for-less malls may be the only bright spot in what is shaping up as a singularly lackluster Christmas for retailers. Last week Sears, Roebuck, faced with declining sales, announced a salary freeze for 20,000 of its 330,000 employees; Macy's was combatting speculation that recent losses might undermine its already precarious financial position. Meanwhile, Child World, the nation's second largest chain of toy stores, declared a six-week moratorium on paying its bills so that it would have enough cash to keep its shelves stocked through the holiday season...
...oilcloth table covers, and mail order as we know it today was born. Fourteen years later, Sears, a Minnesota railroad-station agent, decided to mail a few $12 watches to his peers for $14 apiece. When the ploy worked, Sears hooked up with a Chicago watchmaker named A.C. Roebuck to establish a mail-order business. By 1927 Sears, Roebuck was mailing 75 million letters and catalogs...
...suggests, without becoming dull. Among other anarchic touches, he plans to rent office space in his complex to environmental groups that "will drive other developers crazy." He is restoring the Little White House to its tacky Truman-era splendor, spending $15,000 just to repair the Sears, Roebuck fluorescent lights on the porch. Presidential bad taste doesn't trouble him, in part because he has income projections for his planned Truman museum. "The Little White House is a little gold mine," he says. But he also claims he does not mean to make Key West precious and yuppified...