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Prudent Shoppers to Hit the Stores This Christmas
VALUE. That seems to be the buying demand of consumers as we move into the big Christmas 2009 season. Practicality and thrift are the over-riding considerations as buyers make their way into the sales arena, planning on picking up special gifts...
Hot New Techniques for Selling Accessories
RESEARCH FROM STANFORD UNIVERSITY contends that one in 20 adults is a compulsive shopper, buying all kinds of things that aren’t needed. That’s a big change from our great-grandmother’s day, when shopping was almost totally restricted to nece...
Alley Cat Walk—A New Look at Fashion & Accessories
WHAT’S THAT THEY ARE TALKING for menswear? Orange-Red? The famous Tommy Hilfiger color (although he used it strictly for women). Hmmm. Actually, it looks good in many of its uses, even though we have to blink twice when seeing it in a full su...
Buy Thin, Sell Fast: A Revolutionary Retail Formula
Look out, U.S. retailers, the flamboyant Topshop has arrived on our shores, and with its first flagship store in New York’s chic SoHo, the hot U.K. chain plans to grab as big a slice as possible of the American teen market. This is no mino...
New Concept Store for Jewelry Merchandising
TIFFANY HAS OPENED a new “concept” store in Glendale, California, that is a radical departure from the firm’s usual buttoned-down selling. The new store is smaller than former Tiffany emporiums, more casual, more comfortable. Pr...
The Fashion Work Calendar Needs To Be Revamped!
PUTTING ORDER BACK INTO THINGS FOR 2009 is the call of Stefano Gabbana of Dolce & Gabbana design fame, who wants the fashion industry to become better attuned to both what the buyer needs and when he needs it. It doesn’t make sense, he cont...
Read Your Way To Greater Success!
BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS. There is a saying that you either love them or you hate them…but that is not necessarily so. The key is to find the right books for the right person, and then everything changes. My youngest nephew, who wouldn’t...
Fashion Accessories Rev Up Slow Christmas Sales
Business experts predict that overall holiday sales will run anyplace from poor to miserable this year, not exactly good news for fashion retailers. However, one bright light in the otherwise dim package is accessories, which are driving sales at...
Wholesale Fashion Jewelry Back on Track
Here’s some uplifting news for fashion jewelry retailers to counter all the gloom and doom they hear from the media, but first some bigger news for residents of New Orleans and South Louisiana. New Orleans got its white Christmas early with s...
Fashion Retailers Get Smart with Tough-Times Sales Ideas
FACED WITH REDUCED BUSINESS and a bleak financial outlook nationally, most retailers are straining to find new ways of bringing in customers and making sales. That is to say, all but a few like Wal-Mart, who seem to thrive in tough times. “...
Target Offers New Game Plan for Rough Times
TARGET IS FOCUSING on a new set of retailing initiatives to get through the present tough financial situation and make them well positioned to regain a hefty share of the market when the economy gets better. The plan is multi-faceted, but relies heav...
Generational Marketing is Key to Future Fashion Sales
THE AGE FACTOR: There is more generational marketing now than ever before, with a strong realization that an individual’s place in a generation influences what he buys and how he sees things. But targeting the right age groups with the righ...
Full Parking Lots at the Mall Uplift the Spirits of the Fashion Jewelry & Accessories Industry
You’ve probably seen those old black and white movies with the folks in South Louisiana living in the swamp on houseboats. Well, I live in South Louisiana and I am here to tell you it isn’t true. Nevertheless, my son rented a houseboa...
Smart Business for Tough Times
More and more retailers are being pressured by the economy as the financial picture in the United States gets gloomier. Oil prices are soaring, along with the unemployment rate and home foreclosures. Squeezed by money problems, consumers are ...
