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Article: Buyers want cheaper, safer SA. (Seventh Avenue, New York, New York fashion district)(includes related article on Fashion Center Business Improvement District)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- January 25, 1994
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NEW YORK -- Unless SA wants to lose more ground in its fight to compete with regional marts, it needs to make it cheaper, safer and easier for out-of-town retailers to continue making buying trips here.
That's the conclusion of a national survey of 150 apparel buyers from everywhere in the U.S. but the Northeast. The purpose of the survey was to better understand the changing pattern of their trips into the New York market. In the last couple of years, many retailers -- including such large chains as Dillard Department Stores, Nordstrom, J.C. Penney Co. and Mercantile Stores -- have curtailed or eliminated buying trips here.
SA manufacturers say this ...