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- <text id=90TT1445>
- <title>
- June 04, 1990: Business Notes:Retailing
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 04, 1990 Gorbachev:In The Eye Of The Storm
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 71
- Business Notes
- RETAILING
- From Mergers To Menswear
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Those laid-off Wall Streeters who can't afford a power tie
- shouldn't despair about finding work--or natty clothes.
- Bergdorf Goodman, the ultra-tony Manhattan retailer, thinks
- displaced brokers would have a knack for peddling $1,000 suits
- on Fifth Avenue. To staff a new men's store, Bergdorf courted
- former financial pitchmen in a help-wanted ad in the Wall
- Street Journal: "From brokering to banking, if you've a proven
- track record in sales, the new Bergdorf Goodman Men's Store
- offers a career opportunity that is at once exciting and
- rewarding." Bergdorf says it swiftly received more than 100
- applications for the jobs, which can reward persuasive salesmen
- with commissions that exceed $100,000 a year. Such incomes
- should help keep the former Masters of the Universe snappily
- attired in everything from tasseled loafers to silk cravats.
- As an added perk, Bergdorf is offering a 30% discount on
- merchandise.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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