You whip out your Super Palladium card at the department store.
Omoyemi Akerele, director of Style House Files, says that Nigeria is an emerging market, with Nigerians are among the five biggest spenders at the department store.
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At the Hertie department store, Wolfgang Neubert - in charge of euro preparations - says the fear of fakes is overdone.
Soon afterward, Wang sighted suspicious-looking "Sony" earphones at the Longfu Department Store.
At the nearby Landao Department Store, sales topped 6.13 million RMB, nearly 1.5 million RMB above the record set at the height of this year's Spring Festival shopping season.
Sales at the famous Scitech Department Store soared to over 5 million RMB on May 1 (twice the normal daily take) with cars lined up a kilometer long during the wee hours of the morning because public transit had already shut down.
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.
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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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.
Penney announced that Ron Johnson, the Apple alumni-cum-retail wunderkind, would assume the top job at the 110-year-old department store.
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But Tracy Harvey, manager at the town's Harvey's department store, said the retail sector appeared to be coping.
When Ko graduated in 1996 he landed a job in the executive training program at Macy's department store.
Researchers from the security group at Leibniz University of Hanover and the computer science department at the Philipps University of Marburg tested the most popular apps in Google's Play store.
At the same time, the Times newspaper reported that department store group John Lewis was considering raising its staff retirement age from 60 to 65.
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.
Instead, the department store opened its doors for holiday shoppers at 4 a.m.
The best department store deals will likely be found at regional chains like Bon-Ton and Boscov's (both mainly in the Northeast), according to Anthony Liuzzo, a professor of business and economics at Wilkes University who's been tracking holiday retail trends since 1988.
" Going to a department store "is simpler and you can actually look at the product.
Department-store surveillance video captured a man dropping off a bag at the site of the Boston Marathon bombings.
At the southern end of the 3 rd Avenue Promenade in Santa Monica, the old department store was ripped out.
His only son, Lunkaran Das Chaudhary--Binod's father, who retains the title of chairman and is still semiactive at 86--converted the modest outlet into Arun Emporium, Nepal's first department store, named after his youngest son (Binod's brother, now 45).
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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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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The concept of building a financial department store covering operations in brokerage, insurance, real estate and banking came apart at the seams in 2008.
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.
At the same time as promoting high fashion Neiman Marcus expanded from a speciality shop into an all-providing 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.
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.
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