Luxury struggled too, with Saks' sales down 11% and Neiman Marcus falling almost 16%.
Nordstrom, Saks and Neiman Marcus outperformed expectations with comparative sales increasing 8%, 12% and 12.5% respectively.
For amusement i shop from the neiman marcus holiday catalog on the subway home from work.
"Your odds of success go from 2% to 20%, " says Neiman Marcus CIO Phillip L. Maxwell.
Neiman Marcus, for example, has only 43 full-line stores nationwide, focused in wealthy metropolitan areas.
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This Christmas selling season a partnership with Neiman Marcus will showcase some established designers in Target stores.
Eddie Nunns, creative director for Neiman Marcus Direct, says furnishings influenced by the outdoors are currently popular.
Neiman Marcus, in order to attract customers, is integrating the lower priced CUSP merchandising into their assortment.
Plus, Target gets the added cache of pairing its name with Neiman Marcus, the paragon of luxury.
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Manager Dale Sinclair says patrons include Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and Jim Gold, a president of Neiman Marcus.
But did Neiman Marcus assess whether its customers would want to buy its designs through the Target channel?
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Kate, her husband Andy and partners, Pamela Bell and Elyce Arona, sold the brand to Neiman Marcus in 1999.
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Sutton Fell says companies like Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus hire customer service representatives en masse during the holidays.
Privately held Neiman Marcus and Tommy Hilfiger are among candidates likely to go public in the medium term, he says.
While the items are frivolous in some cases and useful in others, they are unique to Target and Neiman Marcus.
Target has revealed the highly anticipated items that will be part of its unusual joint holiday collection with Neiman Marcus.
Neiman Marcus Group is also ramping up its ad spending on the social network after cutting back two years ago.
At the same time as promoting high fashion Neiman Marcus expanded from a speciality shop into an all-providing department store.
King, a 42-year-old Texas native, worked as a couture and fur buyer for Neiman Marcus in Dallas during the early 1980s.
He has a flagship store in New York and an eponymous line sold in Neiman Marcus and boutiques around the world.
Others have raised the point that the sheer size of the Target x Neiman Marcus collection only added to its downfall.
At Biltmore Fashion Park in Phoenix, outdoor walkways, myriad restaurants and spas surround top retail names like Neiman Marcus and Gucci.
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Turney, recruited from Neiman Marcus Direct, envisions more of a lifestyle layout: lingerie, sleepwear, clothes and cosmetics interspersed throughout the catalog.
With the Neiman Marcus collection, Target over-compensated for the Missoni stock-outs by more than doubling the inventory compared to the Missoni buy.
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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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"Facebook was a black box" but "now we can deliver targeted communications, " said Neiman Marcus's vice president of digital marketing Aaron Shockey.
He recently persuaded 92-year-old Stanley Marcus, the legendary retired chairman of Neiman Marcus, to make an investment and join the Oxxford board.
Most major department stores, including Neiman Marcus , Bergdorf Goodman and Federated Department Stores ' Macy's and Bloomingdale's have personal shopping services.
Turney, recruited from Neiman Marcus Direct, envisions more of a lifestyle layout, where lingerie, sleepwear, clothes and cosmetics appear throughout the catalog.
Nordstrom gets 30% of its sales in California, Saks over 20% in New York and Neiman Marcus a combined 30% in California and Florida.
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