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Jehovah's Witness's Suit Over Being Fired For Refusing To Wear Santa Hat...
A woman who says the Belk department store fired her after she refused to wear a Santa hat during Christmas has won a in a $55,000 suit against the company, reports the News & Observer. The worker...
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Dillard's Fired Guy For Eating Two Hotdogs
A court has ruled that a Dillard’s department store that fired a dock worker after he ate two leftover hotdogs from a company picnic was unjustified in doing so and must pay him unemployment benefits,...
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JCPenney Sweatshirt Says "I'm Too Pretty To Do Homework"
JCPenney is selling this hot pile of a sweatshirt that says, “I’m too pretty to do my homework so my brother has to do it for me.” UPDATE: The shirt has now been removed from their website. The Curvy...
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JCPenney Removes "Too Pretty To Do Homework" Sweatshirt
After a jcpenney sweatshirt that said, “I’m too pretty to do my homework so my brother has to do it for me,” caused an uproar among bloggers, the retailer has removed the garment from their website and...
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After Last Department Store Leaves, Town Decides To Start Its Own
After the last department store in town went bankrupt in 2002, the townsfolk of Saranac Lake, NY, faced the daunting prospect of having to drive 50 miles away just to purchase underwear. Rather than...
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Macy's Actually Has No Idea What Your Credit Card Number Is
From what we’re hearing at Consumerist HQ, it’s easy to picture what goes on at Macy’s credit card headquarters. When a check arrives, someone throws it in the air, and then it’s applied to whatever...
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JCPenney Problems Highlight What Happens When A Brand Becomes Just Another Name
the kids are all about lowercase type this yearJCPenney has lost a ton of money since the beginning of the year, when it announced a drastic “no sales” policy and attempted to rebrand itself as “jcp.”...
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Macy’s Consumer Protection Department Still Protects Everyone From Shopping...
(stevendepolo)As we’ve reported since 2012, the consumer protection department at Macy’s has a novel approach to consumer protection. In trying to prevent fraudulent purchases from going through, they...
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Dead Woman Found In Dillard’s Dressing Room, Store Closes Down
(RetailByRyan95)When a dead newborn turned up in the rest room of a Kohl’s department store in Kentucky last week, some shoppers were horrified to learn that they were browsing sales right near a...
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Scammers Distract Cashiers, Install Skimmers On Nordstrom Cash Registers
Keyloggers are devices that plug in between a keyboard and computer, and they have perfectly legitimate uses. For example, let’s say that you suspect one of your employees is writing “Sherlock” fan...
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Who Do Sears And JCPenney Closures Really Hurt? Malls
(Nicholas Eckhart)Back in 1959, Sears started the Homart Development Company. What did Homart develop? Malls! It built and ran malls across the country, malls that were home to Sears stores. Today,...
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Dillard’s Pulls Sign From Girls’ Department Asking Santa For A “Fat Bank...
(WPTV.com)Complaining about getting a fat body and a slim bank account for Christmas instead of vice versa sounds like something one might see in a Cathy cartoon ([sweat marks!] “Bikini season, ugh!”...
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Hungry Shoppers Also Buy More Non-Food Stuff
(Michael G. Chan) It’s a long-held belief that shopping while hungry leads to a larger than normal grocery bill. A new study claims that you might want also want to avoid hitting the department store...
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Macy’s Tries Again To Win Back Trademarks From Man Who Resurrected Astro Pops...
(The Caldor Rainbow)When Macy’s Inc. swallowed up a slew of department stores across the land — from Marshall Field’s to Filene’s, Abraham & Straus to Jordan Marsh — it rebranded many of them,...
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Macy’s Decides To Grow By Targeting Bargain-Hunters
(Mike Mozart)How does a department store company grow when department stores, as a category, are not doing so well? They have to go where customers are, and in general where customers are headed is...
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Macy’s To Launch Quartet Of “Off-Price” (AKA Discount) Stores This Fall
(Nicholas Eckhart)Earlier this year, Macy’s said it was going to dip its toes into the waters of discount retailing by creating some sort of off-price offshoot of its department store chain. Today, the...
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Kohl’s Will Open An Off-Price Store In New Jersey
(JeepersMedia)You may have been under the impression that Kohl’s, a department store where suggested retail prices are largely imaginary because most of the store is at least 30% off, already was a...
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JCPenney’s New CEO Plans To Reuse His Home Depot Strategy
(The Caldor Rainbow) JCPenney hasn’t had a chief executive officer since chairman Myron Ullman sacked re-vamper Ron Johnson back in 2013. Last fall, they found a candidate who was up for the challenge:...
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Macy’s Customer Accused Of Biting Employee Over Price Dispute
(evil robot 6)When you have a question about the price tag on a department store item, you should raise your concerns with store employees. You should not yell at them or curse them out, and you should...
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Amazon’s Apparel Sales Could Surpass Macy’s By 2017
(m01229) While Amazon used to be the site where you bought affordable books, CDs, DVDs, and electronics, the online retailer is quickly gaining ground as a seller of designer apparel and accessories....
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