Word: successful
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...Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and the thousands of other department and specialty stores throughout the country. These are the weeks when retailers ring up a quarter to a third of their annual sales, the period that largely determines whether the year goes into merchants' ledgers as a success, like 1973, or a disaster, like...
...retailers still face the urgent question: What will make consumers keep pouring into the nation's stores to part with their money? For some answers, store managers across the country increasingly are studying the phenomenal success of Federated Department Stores and especially its crown jewel, Bloomingdale's. Not every store, of course, can emulate Bloomingdale's specific techniques: ice cream made from Himalayan mangoes might not sell as well in the suburbs of Spokane as it does on Manhattan's East Side?especially not at $1.75 a pint. But any store can follow Bloomingdale's essential formula: first, know your...
...Such success has attracted attention far beyond the ranks of celebrities. Wall Street analysts have made Federated's stock one of their recommended buys, partly because of Bloomingdale's consistent appeal to upper-income shoppers. New York Advertising Executive Stephen Baker, in his forthcoming book A Systematic Approach to Creative Advertising (McGraw-Hill), suggests that ad copywriters drop into Bloomingdale's to "soak up inspiration...
Police 5's success has led to adaptations in West Germany and Hong Kong. New York City police are also feeding clues to two local TV news programs. Back in England, Shaw Taylor, a Peter Sellers lookalike, now hosts Junior Police 5 as well. He cautions tots to consult their parents before taking action, however. The Yard, it seems, does not want a raft of naive informers telling them that the stolen stereos on the show are stashed down in Mum and Dad's basement...
Both women attribute a good deal of their success to contacts made through volunteer organizations and civic committees. "Because of my past experience I had no problem presiding," says Hance. "Through volunteering, I had to learn discipline, work habits, and a broad knowledge of the community. As a volunteer you get to see government from the outside. There's a better viewpoint there than for a man tied up in his profession...