Word: stockinged
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When the first store opened, in Hollywood in 1964, founder Wayne Mitchell, a former car salesman from the Midwest, was running a chain of California organ shops. Mitchell bought out a competitor, acquiring a shipment of guitars and amplifiers. Almost as an afterthought, he hung a GUITAR CENTER sign on...
The tough part will be maintaining the chain's hard-won brand cachet. That means keeping service levels high and stocking a $125,000 guitar that may take years to sell but gives shoppers something to drool over. "You'd never see Wal-Mart keep around merchandise just to help...
An alternative to the athletic trend, though not necessarily one that will thrill parents, is the biker look. Teen stores are stocking up on lapel-less motorcycle-style jackets, an alternative to last year's omnipresent blazer. "It's a reinvented classic," says Gress. "Designers have played with the colors...
The performance was especially impressive in light of the generally sluggish retail environment. But Pacific Sunwear, perhaps more than any other retailer, seems to have figured out how to cater to the fashion desires of that fickle yet reliably profligate demographic group, American teenagers. By stocking only the hottest surf...
He didn't mean to create the devil. He just wanted a job. But when Seann William Scott quit his gig stocking shelves at Home Depot to audition for the 10-line part of Steve Stifler in 1999's teen-sex comedy American Pie, he unwittingly invented the icon of...