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...Letter in response to this article: Russia’s counter-narratives owe much to its media / From Roger Macy, London N1, UK...
...Another storied luxury department store, Barneys, folded last year after a sharp rise in rent on its Madison Avenue flagship store....
...Gap, Kohl’s and Macy’s alone have put more than 227,000 workers on unpaid leave this week....
...Starboard, a $6bn fund that has pushed for change at other retailers including Macy’s and Staples, took a 1.7 per cent stake last month....
...Next month, Macy’s is beginning a substantial redesign of its large store in booming downtown Brooklyn....
...Michael Faulhaber, the veteran owner of the Ward-Brodt music store in Madison, Wisconsin, has plenty in common with Dave Battisti of the Pork Roll Store, 900 miles east in central New Jersey....
...“I felt like a Macy’s parade balloon, floating back after a million orbits,” he wrote later....
...Thus, Polo Ralph Lauren shapes its image with its new Madison Avenue “mansion store”, but also through the specially trained staff selling its clothes in Macy’s....
...Della Femina first learnt about selling by working in big department stores such as Macy’s and Gimbels, selling bathrobes and toys. In one year, he had 22 jobs....
...Pat Ryan, chairman of insurance group Aon, took a long hard look at the T-shirt handed to him amid a crush of reporters in a cramped corner of the Macy’s department store in downtown Chicago....
...My friends tell me to visit the department store windows but at Macy’s I can’t get near enough to see....
...Shopbop’s online service was launched in 2000 by Bob Lamey, its chief executive, and Martha Graettinger, who operated Bop, a small fashion retailer based in Madison, Wisconsin, near the city’s university...
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