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...service nonexistent and the merchandise ubiquitous without being interesting. "Department stores have lost sight of their customer. It's that simple," says Janet Hoffman, a San Francisco--based retail strategist for Accenture. Sales tumbled, and chain after chain of historic, family-owned retailers--Gimbels, Woodward & Lothrop, Wanamaker's, Montgomery Ward--closed their doors or were swallowed up by stronger companies. In 1980, about 35 major department-store chains were in business; today there are only 13. The merger is the category's last-gasp effort to save itself. "It represents the best chance to stop the decline of the department...
...Democrats of Cambridge’s 8th Ward will send an Eliot House senior to the party’s state convention this June, while Democratic voters in Boston elected a Matthews Hall freshman as one of their delegates...
...Ward Democrats gathered Saturday afternoon in the cafeteria of the Graham and Parks Alternative Public School in Cambridge to elect eight delegates—all of them pro-Patrick—to the party’s June convention...
Despite Reilly’s frontrunner status, the nearly 100 rank and file Democrats who compose the core of Cambridge’s liberal 8th Ward made clear their support for Patrick within moments of the caucus’ opening...
...Lagerfeld says. He has launched himself in the U.S. with characteristic gusto: setting up shop in the same loft building as Martha Stewart's office in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood, purchasing an apartment near Gramercy Park and hiring a team of designers headed by the stylist Melanie Ward, a former creative director for Helmut Lang. And the collection is all about Lagerfeld, from his signature on one T shirt to the photo of the designer as a young man on another. In a first for the fashion industry, Apple will offer a video podcast of Lagerfeld's show...