Word: shopper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office, he escapes from a world in which he has long ceased to be undisputed master, and into a region where he is still very much the boss. Outwardly, but only outwardly, American business has become strongly feminized. Industrial giants get down on their knees before the woman shopper, promising to love, honor and obey. The U.S. office landscape is full of wire bras, pancake makeup, and clouds of Chanel No. 5 rising from filing cabinets. Of the total U.S. labor force of 63 million, nearly one-third are women, twice as big a proportion as 60 years ago. Nevertheless...
...blond leader tapped a baton, and his musicians lifted their instruments to the strains (recorded) of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. The woman's comment was heard often around the U.S. last week. For Christmas 1953, retail stores had spent $30 million to turn their windows into a shopper's art gallery...
...only a few instances did Richmond sales clerks show any enterprise. In one drugstore, a shopper who had bought a toothbrush was also offered a deodorant. "Do you think I need it?" he asked. There followed a long, painful silence. He reluctantly bought the deodorant and reported: "There's one woman clerk who doesn't have to be told anything about the way to make a sale...
Neiman's salesgirls (a top one can earn as much as $25,000 a year), teaches them the fine points of low-pressure selling. They also learn to treat all customers alike, never knowing which unlikely looking shopper may prove to be the biggest spender. Once a girl in a sunbonnet and cotton dress came into Neiman's for a complete outfitting on her first visit to Dallas. In a few hours, she spent $10,000 of her father's new oil wealth. The last thing Neiman's sold her was a pair of shoes...
...Raymond Loewy, is an airy, two-story building with a huge glass panel in front and a parking lot for 1,500 cars. It is an extension of Dorothy Shaver's firm belief in peddling her wares where the customers live. President Shaver, who started as head comparison shopper 29 years ago and rose steadily to Lord & Taylor's top post in 1945, has since boosted the store's sales 62% to more than $50 million. She launched three suburban branches, kept sales of her Fifth Avenue store rising. In West Hartford, as elsewhere, Dorothy Shaver hopes...