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Any Bloomingdale’s customers still stubbornly clinging to catalog ordering will have to brave the online experience or head to the stores, come early 2009.
Bloomie’s will close its Bloomingdale’s by Mail catalog business next year to concentrate its direct efforts on growing web sales, writes Direct Magazine. General advertising catalogs to support retail and online sales will continue.
Just a year ago, Federated Department Stores dedicated $100 million for its direct-to-consumer business, to support continued growth from its online properties - including Macys.com, Bloomingdales.com, Macysweddingchannel.com and Bloomingdalesweddingchannel.com - as well as the Bloomingdale’s print catalog.
Catalog sales growth has lagged behind online sales growth for years. The company’s direct marketing division is expected to generate more than $1 billion in sales this year.
All sectors of the media business will suffer from the weakened economy in 2008 and 2009, with a slump in local advertising particularly hurting newspapers and local TV, according to a new projection from Goldman Sachs.
Broadcast nets will experience…
The New York Times is shuttering its International Herald Tribune site; NYTimes.com will soon host the international news normally reserved for its sister website.
The move is not about cost savings, but rather about growth, NYTimes.com general manager Vivian Schiller…
Unilever’s Vaseline set forth on an unusual research project in a small town in Alaska. Setting up a storefront, the company began giving away free bottles of lotion and asking recipients to name the person who had recommended they come…
Meet the Press, the show hosted by Tim Russert for 17 years before his death last June, is beginning to slip in ratings.
Last month, CBS’s Face the Nation pulled ahead of Meet the Press for the first time in two…
Bloggers collectively create nearly one million blog posts each day, and half of bloggers believe blogs will be a primary source of news and entertainment in the next five years, according to Technorati’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere Report, MarketingCharts writes.…
Wal-Mart and Costco reported same-store gains in September, with sales rising 2.4% and 9% respectively. Sales at Target stores open at least a year fell 3%, writes Retailer Daily.
Below, fiscal results from the discount retail giants:
Sales of food and…
