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New York-Starbucks is spurring a coffee culture coast to coast. Baby boomers, worried about saving for kids’ college and their own retirement, are investing in mutual funds. The Internet is taking off. This 1996 Year-End Retail Roundup includes retail observers from coast to coast, ranging from academicians to Wall Street analysts, who identify these trends and other issues as the year’s most important. Here is what the retail experts had to say: Terre Simpson; Simpson Associates, retail executive search firm, New York HOT ISSUES Internet exposure and its profit potential, both catalogs and stores Brand identity (stores want to become a brand such as Williams-Sonoma, Spiegel, Bloomingdale’s, Brooks Brothers, Victoria’s Secret) IPOs (Linens’n Things, Donna Karan) Acquisitions and mergers (Younkers, Parisian, Office Max, J.C. Penney) Talent-Arthur Martinez totally re-engineering Sears |
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