“Our store visits continue to indicate that most specialty retailers are less promotional than they were this week last year.”
Dana Cohen
“I think that department stores in general have been doing better than specialty stores. Each specialty store has its own problems in terms of fashion ... limited products.”
Jeff Edelman
“These are high-end items that consumers typically find at specialty stores and not necessarily at Wal-Mart, ... The idea is to take our base business and layer it with unexpected products.”
John Fleming
“How does Isaac successfully live in both specialty department stores and discount stores? Why does Bergdorf Goodman welcome Isaac into its rarified space at the same time as the brand sits in the pet care aisle at Target?”
Wendy Liebmann
“We're specialty retailers and I think something gets lost when a store becomes too big. You have to show the consumer what you think is important, not just offer them anything and everything.”
Dave DeMattei
“The new concept for department stores and specialty stores has to be a smaller footprint, shopping carts, a 'spoke and wheel' layout where an inner circle leads to an outer circle instead of the tiresome grid layouts, and central checkout systems, ... Federated is making similar changes, by introducing a checkout counter for every seven departments within a store.”
John Gifford
“The new concept for department stores and specialty stores has to be a smaller footprint, shopping carts, a 'spoke and wheel' layout where an inner circle leads to an outer circle instead of the tiresome grid layouts, and central checkout systems. Federated is making similar changes, by introducing a checkout counter for every seven departments within a store.”
