Sentences with phrase «less on apparel»

Many major shopping center owners are now proactively repurposing their spaces and shifting their tenant base to rely less on apparel chains, Mercer says.

But now, Lululemon is flexing its dollars to include more of a marketing push as the athleisure market grows more crowded and consumers begin to spend less on apparel.

Shoppers may be spending less on apparel, but that hasn't stopped some retailers from thriving.

Not exact matches

«The incident at the Bangladesh apparel factory that claimed 1,000 lives is less an issue of domestic versus foreign manufacturing than it is about fast fashion and the hidden costs of disposable retail,» he wrote in his blog on the company website.

In addition to appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines, Penney last year added showrooms for and mattresses at some 500 stores in its efforts to become less reliant on apparel, bolster its home goods category, and frankly, to capitalize on the years - long sales decline at Sears, once the leading seller of appliances in the United States.

That said, the oldest Boomers are past their «peak consumption years», meaning less spending on key categories like transportation, housing and apparel, with the windfall more than picked up by their children, netting out to about an average 0.77 % demographic driven annual growth rate across sectors through 2060.12

And while businesses need to adjust to having less retail space, it will take a toll on overall apparel sales during this course correction.

But in football, the NCAA - created black market is filled less by apparel / agency types who want to make money and more by sports fans who want to see their teams win (and yeah, there are exceptions on both sides).

Basing this part of her business on the concepts of «good fabrics and great fit,» George hired a designer from Liz Claiborne and set about improving upon what she viewed as a less than spectacular pet apparel market.

Beyond that, consumers are spending less on categories where Kohl's holds a large share of the pie — apparel, for example.