House for sale: British department stores. (House of Fraser public...

The Economist (US);  March 5, 1994 ;     634 words ......out-of-town sites, hit department stores badly. The latters...flotation of House of Fraser, planned for April...Fayeds. Though Fraser is being floated...Pounds400m-500m. In Britain, department stores are still losing...planning controls. Fraser reckons only five...says that if ...

Someone Else's Department; Stores That Once Had Everything Are Now Missing...

The Washington Post;  April 27, 2003 ;     700+ words ...I frequently go to department stores looking for something specific...pure serendipity, I find department stores confusing and, usually...wonder what the role of department stores is today for the American...

Worry of department stores [part IV]: How to meet environmental changes

Asian Textile Business;  May 1, 2002 ;     448 words ...Department stores have been taking a recovering trend...but some stores were closed. Most department stores that were competing with Sogo in...Compared to mass-merchandisers, department stores have fewer stores and competitive...

Shoppers give big-store clones cold shoulder. (sales suffer at look-alike...

WWD;  February 6, 1995 ;     700+ words ...NEW YORK -- When it comes to department stores, there are too many look-alikes...in WWD's recent financial forum, department stores, particularly with the invasion of...Loeb, of Loeb Associates, said most department stores are failing what he called The Blink...

What direction for department stores? (column)

Daily News Record;  November 18, 1986 ;     700+ words ...What direction for department stores? NEW YORK -- The one aspect...adversity. Time and again department stores have been judged to be suffering...certainly from each other. Department stores, with their excellent real...

Department stores' survival may hinge on differentiation

Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  August 6, 2008 ;     669 words ...Department stores may not survive unless they focus...many retail experts believe. "Department stores have become retail's dinosaurs...Palumbo-Donahue School of Business. "Department stores just aren't 'the thing' for shoppers...

Department stores must solve a killer of a situation: category killers,...

Daily News Record;  February 6, 1995 ;     700+ words ......of the category killer, sales at department stores are suffering from too much sameness...Loeb, at Loeb Associates, said most department stores are failing The Blink Test. You go...similar, Loeb said. While profits at department stores have revived over the last two years...

Ryuko Nippon: Four problems with department stores

Asian Textile Business;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Japanese department stores sold goods worth 12 trillion...sluggish sales. This is because department stores have four problems. The four...making little of salespersons. Department stores have to overcome four following...

Retail's Old Guard Lives; After Years of Eroding Business, Department...

The Washington Post;  November 11, 2006 ;     700+ words ......department store. For the past two months, department stores have basked in strong sales growth...Momentum built in October, with department stores again in the lead. And now industry...many thought had long since passed. Department stores were once destinations for a generation...

Department stores need to boost sales They've contained costs but have to...

Chicago Sun-Times;  September 2, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Co. and the rest of the nation's department stores are facing one of the retail industry...languishing sales since December 2000, the department stores have already done much of the gritty...as Laura Ashley to its traditional department stores, including Proffitt's and Younkers...

As More Shoppers Turn to Discounters, Department Stores Struggle to...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  July 7, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Sales are slipping at the nation's department stores. And Jacksonville residents Daneene...more convenient than the traditional department stores. You can get clothes and Windex in...m really shopping for something. Department stores, once the titans of retailing, have...

Lost in Their Space; Customers Have to Ransack Department Stores From Tops...

The Washington Post;  July 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ...I find most department stores to be overwhelming. On the...you." It's hard to fathom why department stores keep these confusing layouts...Envirosell of New York, argues that department stores need to start thinking more...

Changing Retail Patterns Push May Department Stores to Merge Chain,...

The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  May 4, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Jeffrey Kosseff May 4--The May Department Stores Co.'s decision to merge its Meier...reflects a broader challenge that all department stores are facing as they fight to survive...eliminate every possible cost, all department stores must improve their margins because...

Department stores ... never lost their feel for excitement. (column)

Daily News Record;  January 21, 1988 ;     700+ words ...Department stores . . . never lost their feel for...again. Just about the time when department stores were once more considered logical...When discounters began pushing department stores into the Museum several years ago...

DICOUNTERS DOMINATE, FUNDAMENTALLY.(discount stores vs. department...

WWD;  June 17, 2002 ;     700+ words ......giving discounters a leg up over department stores. Facing more agile and focused competition, department stores have underperformed the retail...customers and depress prices. Department stores have reacted by reining in expenses...