While the tactic works for discounters like Wal-Mart, it has not motivated department-store shoppers.
Weinswig also downgraded two other upscale department-store stocks, assigning a Neutral rating to Nordstrom and Saks.
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But she was recently declined a new major credit card and even a department-store credit card.
Department-store sales online were up 38%, and jewelry retailers' online sales were up 97%.
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Dayton Hudson, an American department-store chain, discovered that 2.5% of its customers bought 75% of its goods.
Like department-store cards, gas cards typically carry low credit limits and interest rates that hover at about 25%.
Department-store surveillance video captured a man dropping off a bag at the site of the Boston Marathon bombings.
One Japanese stock that has done well in recent weeks is department-store operator Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd.
In 1998, he was arrested in connection with a department-store robbery in Paris that left ten people wounded.
In the half-light, the proscenium glowed like a bright department-store window, which shadowy people behind it were dressing.
Consumption is collapsing: department-store sales in November fell 4.7%, and supermarket turnover 2.3%.
Indeed, Target sold both Marshall Field's, its own department-store chain, and Mervyn's, a middle-market store chain, earlier this year.
In Japan department-store sales in August were 0.9% lower than a year earlier.
Sears plunged 14 percent after the department-store chain reported a steep quarterly loss and slumping sales after the market closed Thursday.
The room with the smelling table includes a museum staffer whose hawking of the fragrances is little different from a department-store floor-walker's.
He wants to establish that he's more than just a department-store scion.
Penney slid 3.59, or 17%, to 17.57, after the department-store chain late Wednesday reported a wider-than-expected fourth-quarter loss and revenue that fell short of expectations.
Joel Kotkin, of Pepperdine University, points out that today not a single major bank, department-store chain or telecoms company calls the nation's second-largest city its home.
Before Holbrooke was sworn in, Helms asked the White House to appoint an alternate U.N. delegate: Irwin Belk, a feisty North Carolina buddy who heads a department-store chain.
But department-store cards come with discounts and regular cardholder-only deals.
Department-store security officers detained her outside, the records said.
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Kohl's fell 51 cents, or 1.1%, to 46.10, after the department-store operator's earnings outlook for the quarter and full fiscal year were below analyst estimates, offsetting better-than-expected earnings and an increase in its quarterly dividend.
Its bigger rival, Metro, where Mr Urban worked for 25 years, also has a troubled German department-store chain, Kaufhof, but it has been partly redeemed by its substantial cash-and-carry business, which operates in 23 countries.
Its managers have posted a 15% rise in sales, increased the company's share of the department-store market from 15% to almost 19% (according to Verdict, a retail-research company) and widened its operating margins to almost 16% from 12%.
Although Poynter provides a vital financial cushion during lean times, it can't do anything about external forces beyond its control, such as the proliferation of new Web-based news platforms or the consolidation of department-store chains, which has hurt advertising revenues.
Sexier, but in no less a commodity category, Sephora took on both the over-the-counter department store cosmetic brands and the under-wraps drug store brands and created an open-sell environment as its distinguishing brand factor.
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The 111-year-old department store and the 5-year old e-tailer have joined forces.
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The mid-priced department store chain reported another much larger-than-expected loss in the fiscal fourth quarter on a nearly 30 percent plunge in revenue in the latest sign that shoppers aren't happy with the changes it's made in the past year.
For example, even though pvh first thought it could sell Calvin Klein men's sportswear at 700 to 800 U.S. department store locations with in-store space of 1, 500 square feet, it cautiously launched in just 150 stores, with only 500 square feet each. (Today the line is in 500 stores, averaging 750 square feet.) "As the business rolled out, we ramped up to the appropriate size, " says Emanuel Chirico, who was named chief executive last February.
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