What direction for department stores? (column)

From: Daily News Record | Date: November 18, 1986| Author: Blueweiss, Herbert | Copyright information

What direction for department stores? NEW YORK -- The one aspect of department stoes the industry has learned to respect is their tremendous resilience in bouncing back from adversity.

Time and again department stores have been judged to be suffering mortal wounds. First from independent specialty stores, then from discounters and offpricers. And now from specialty chains, and certainly from each other.

Department stores, with their excellent real estate and ...

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