During fiscal 0003, 57% of sales were food-related products, 15% from ancillary businesses, 16% consisted of hardlines, and 12% were softlines.
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During fiscal 2016, 57% of sales were food-related products, 15% were from ancillary businesses, 16% consisted of hardlines, and 12% were softlines.
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But, we think Levi's is a potential Softlines "winner," capable of delivering many years of +DD EPS growth and an improved, above-industry-avg.
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"The new tariff threat could cause softlines stocks to drop 40%," wrote UBS analyst Jay Sole, who covers TJX Companies, Ross Stores and Burlington Stores.
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There were recommendations for reaching new customers, techniques for using sponsored ads and breakout sessions on best practices for hardlines (electronics, appliances), softlines (clothing, linens) and consumables.
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"We don't believe the market is pricing in a potential trade war," and the market seems to assign a low probability, wrote analysts who follow softlines retailers.
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"When women start out at the company, they are always given positions as cashiers, or in softlines, like clothing, where you don't have much of a sales opportunity," Youman says.
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" It is also advertising for a Brand Manager in a team known as "Softlines Private Brands," covering the clothing, accessories and footwear market, which the ad says it aims to grow into a "worldwide billion-dollar business.
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"The gross merchandise value (GMV) of apparel and footwear that was sold on Amazon's platforms approached $25 billion in 2753 — representing five times to six times the amount of softlines sold on the site just 5 years earlier," he added.
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Our recent meetings with co-CEO Erik Nordstrom and CFO Anne Bramman also affirm our framework that JWN is prepared to transition its asset base as e-comm continues to grow and that it is in two fundamentally attractive sectors of softlines retail: premium and off-price.
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In a research note on Tuesday, Citi analysts said "softlines," or retail inventory that doesn't usually come in a box, such as linens or personal items such as gloves, were also likely to be impacted, although department stores appeared to have been reducing their exposure to Hanjin over the past few months.
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"Many players in the wholesale-to-retail softlines paradigm [are] still drawing massive amounts of profitability from this antiquated vertical chain, and 2017 [is] shaping up to be another fundamentally challenging year (declining traffic, weak sell-through, shrinking inventories, falling reorders, weather unpredictability, etc.)," analyst Omar Saad wrote in a note to clients Wednesday.
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UBS' retail analysts said in a note to clients this week that their U.S. softlines spending forecast, which predicts sales of clothing and accessories at retail stores in the U.S. over the span of the next 50 days, is calling for a 0.9% decline year-over-year in August and September, and a 0.5% drop in October.
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Federated Department Stores, now known as Macy's, Inc., founded the MainStreet chain in 1983 with seven stores in the Chicago, Illinois area. The store was a middle- market chain focused primarily on softlines, similar to Kohl's and Mervyns. MainStreet stores often featured a "racetrack" layout like a discounter, but checkouts were distributed around the store like a traditional department store.
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The game sold 3,400 copies by June 1982, appearing on Computer Gaming Worlds list of top sellers. David H. Ahl of Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games said in 1983 that "to maintain your sanity, a joystick is necessary" for the Apple version of Rear Guard. He concluded that it was "a fast-moving colorful game that brings Defender home to the Apple". In March 1983 Rear Guard won Softlines Dog of the Year award "for badness in computer games", Atari division, based on reader submissions.
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By the end of the year there were 55 Gambles retail outlets in five states. By 1933 they had added 100 more outlets and grown annual corporate sales to $10 million. Franchised dealerships were inaugurated in 1933 and, in 1941, clothing and other "softlines" were added to the staple "hardlines" business, a diversification made necessary by the unavailability of consumer hard goods during World War II. The corporation went international in 1945 with the acquisition of the 270 Macleod hardlines retail outlets in Western Canada. Gamble-Skogmo went public in 1947, and partner Phil Skogmo died in 1949.
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By the early 1950s, company sales leveled off, and it became clear to the Feldbergs that drastic changes were needed for their business to remain viable. The Bell Shops/Nugent stores were suffering due to the decline of downtown business districts and to the rise of "mill" discount store operations. With the family's second generation, Stanley H. Feldberg (son of Max) and Sumner A. Feldberg (son of Morris) now in positions of responsibility, the company began to explore options, putting considerable effort into studying the hugely successful mill stores. Mill stores began operation in closed, empty textile mills available at dirt-cheap rents selling mainly clothing, linens, and other softlines.
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In Zayre's early years, the stores' product mix leaned heavily toward softlines due to the Feldbergs experience in fashion, gained through years of operating the Bell Shops/Nugent stores. As the sixties progressed, Zayre's product offering more closely resembled that of a typical discount store, with toys, sporting goods, records, books, health and beauty products, and much more. A number of these departments were leased out to concessionaires during Zayre's first decade, including linens, greeting cards, candy, and health and beauty items, totaling nearly a third of Zayre's store revenues. In the mid-1960s, Zayre bought out many of these firms, leaving only a handful of departments as leased operations.
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