Duckworth's buyers get rugs for a third less than they would pay at a big department store.
In 2007 he persuaded a buyer at John Lewis Partnership, a department store owner, to carry two styles of Hunters at its store in Reading, England, the site of an annual music festival.
Police are appealing for witnesses after jewellery was stolen in a raid at a Cardiff city centre department store.
At that point, Armani had worked as a window dresser and buyer at Milan department store La Rinascente and was designing for Italian menswear house Cerruti.
John Lewis has withdrawn its plans for a department store at Sprucefield, near Lisburn.
"John Lewis has reiterated its continued interest in opening a new department store at Sprucefield, " they said.
At thirteen, he recalls, he was nabbed while robbing a Jordan Marsh department store. (He and his friends learned to hide out in stores at closing time, steal their merchandise, and then break out during the night.) The remainder of his childhood was spent mostly in the state reform school.
"We, however, remain fully committed to opening a full-line department store at Sprucefield, " he said.
An evening gathering at Saks Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, shortly before Christmas, looks more like happy hour at a sorority house than closing time in a department store.
Easy access to discount shopping is so commonplace in the US that sometimes if you walk into a department store and buy something at full retail you feel like chump, knowing it will soon be on sale.
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The day after the river outing, Bragdon is back at work in the Metro building, a former Sears department store converted to office space in the Rose Quarter of Portland.
While creating a specialty department store sounds like a great idea, the reality of losing sales and earnings at a faster clip than has ever been seen in a major American retailer must give the Board pause.
When Ko graduated in 1996 he landed a job in the executive training program at Macy's department store.
Instead, the department store opened its doors for holiday shoppers at 4 a.m.
" Going to a department store "is simpler and you can actually look at the product.
Never mind that Bayless took a lot of guff for starring in a 2003 Burger King commercial. (Bayless, who gave the proceeds to charity, says the issue was blown out of proportion by bloggers.) Last year Valdes and Bayless decided to go ahead with a food-court restaurant at Chicago's Marshall Field's department store, but naturally they came to loggerheads.
But at Harrods, the giant London department store, sales are held only twice a year, and are so anticipated that customers line up before the doors open.
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Department-store surveillance video captured a man dropping off a bag at the site of the Boston Marathon bombings.
If a department store or credit card company wants to call you 50 times a day at all hours and berate you mercilessly, the FDCPA will not protect you.
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Penney set the pace, surging 9.6% after an analyst at ISI Group suggested the department store chain could convert several hundred of its best locations into a real estate investment trust.
For example, Debenhams, a department store, said this week that members of its scheme would stop accruing benefits at the end of October.
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Such a commitment can be effective because, whereas the department store can aim its price cuts at bargain-hunters, the discounter cannot offer price cuts to impatient buyers without offering discounts to all its clients.
At the same time as promoting high fashion Neiman Marcus expanded from a speciality shop into an all-providing department store.
The concept of building a financial department store covering operations in brokerage, insurance, real estate and banking came apart at the seams in 2008.
Request samples at a Kiehl's store (where the selection is usually larger) or a Kiehl's counter in a department store.
So it may be profitable for the department store to promise not to hold sales more than, say, twice a year, if at all.
Although the show's line producer reported the hitting incident to the studio's human resources department, there was no investigation until an ABC senior executive saw a National Enquirer story about it at a grocery store two months later, according to testimony.
Shopping centers, which play host to day-to-day necessities--drugstores, hair salons, laundries--are down 0.5%. (The big malls, owned by powerful players like real estate investment trusts, are finding meager advances in same-store sales at their department stores and boutiques.) Warehouses, their growth pace off only half a point to 4%, are still much in demand.
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