Who can stay angry after getting a Bloomingdales gift certificate and a nice apology?

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Online sales (including sales from both macys.com and Bloomingdales.com) were up 40.2% in the second quarter.

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Friedlander has constructed another stage for her hypermarketing: Its the Pearl Bar, a 450-square-foot boutique at Bloomingdales flagship New York store.

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They are sold at department stores like Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Bloomingdales, as well as specialty stores nationwide.

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Online sales for both macys.com and Bloomingdales.com were up 36% in December.

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Upscale chains like Bloomingdales, with its outlets, and Nordstrom, with its Rack stores, are finding their biggest successes in smaller locales.

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Penney, Best Buy and Federated, the owner of Macy's and Bloomingdales.

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The underwear is from Bloomingdales.

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After years in the corporate world (at PriceWaterhouse Coopers, the Stockholm School of Economics and Oriflame Cosmetics), she returned to her roots as a stylist for Bloomingdales, Calvin Klein and the San Francisco Ballet to help companies and private individuals with appearance and personal branding.

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