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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ostensibly to retard aging. Probably the most successful of the full lines is Estée Lauder's Clinique, consisting of seven products concocted with the help of dermatologists and priced from $6.50 to $7.50 each. In many department stores, the Clinique counter resembles a laboratory, where the saleswomen wear white uniforms and products are packaged in antiseptic green. On the counter sits a computer-like box that asks the customer eight questions about her complexion, which she answers by moving silver knobs. The answers are supposed to determine her skin type and thus the right group of Clinique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Newest Skin Game | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...motto: "Don't ask the price, it's a penny." His son Simon, taking over the group of 60 bazaars upon Michael's death in 1907, imported from the U.S. the concept that better working conditions make workers happier and more efficient. The company trusts junior saleswomen to restock their own counters as necessary. Indeed, the company tries to cut out paperwork wherever possible. It employs no buyers as such, but-buying British where possible and often taking more than 50% of a factory's output-goes directly to 550 suppliers. Though some suppliers moan that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Marks & Sparks Trades Up | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...really, it is uncanny how the terminology used to distinguish the different jazz styles today resembles the practiced patter of a used-clothes saleswomen. "Contemporary" replies the hey-man at the other end of the telephone when you ask what the well-noised jazz-listener will be hearing tomorrow. Contemporary? What's contemporary? The voice will reply--sounding laid-back of course--"Like, uh, sort of late 50's and early 60's--it was too advanced for them then so they didn't appreciate...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: JAZZ | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

...aswirl in its annual kimono sale-unquestionably the largest, silkiest, costliest and most colorful event of its kind anywhere. Thousands of kimonos were spread over an acre of selling space at prices averaging $350* and ranging up to $10,700. With a small army of 300 kimono-clad saleswomen amid the racks, Mitsukoshi officials expect to sell $2.1 million worth of the traditional Japanese garments before the sale ends Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Sincerity for Sale | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...Dart Industries' net profits. Tupperware products are sold by self-employed dealers, mostly housewives, who peddle the plastic food containers at home demonstration "parties." In order to maintain the evangelical zeal of the distributors, Dart regularly holds sales jubilees at which the most successful of the housewife-saleswomen are awarded such prizes as new cars, microwave ovens and all-expense trips to London and Tokyo with their husbands. Of late, Dart has found the seemingly all-American formula quite as valuable overseas: Tupperware has been expanding abroad, and per capita sales in France now surpass those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Darting Ahead | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

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