Article: High-upkeep hair accessories. (Fall Market Supplement)

Up-to-the-minute fashion and fresh offerings are what make this category grow.

NEW YORK -- Hair accessories are still a profitable area for many stores, but maintaining a constant array of new merchandise and analyzing sales in this inventory-heavy, impulse-driven category can be tough.

Price, too, remains a high priority among retailers, who are generally sticking to either higher-priced, designer level goods or more volume-driven trend lines rather than offering a mix.

Rob Goldfarb, merchandise manager for fashiong accessories at Henri Bendel, said hair accessories is a high-maintenance business, where tracking exactly what sells is crucial ...

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