High End Department Stores

[jiacinto]

What are the highest end department stores? And what is the most expensive item you can buy at a department store and how much is it?

[La_Serpiente]

1. The most expensive Dept. Store I have ever been to

Is Neiman Marcus. Man, I saw an Italian Baby Blanket for 500 dollars. However, it was SO SOFT AND FLUFFY, I WOULD WRAP MY BABY IN IT ( I wish I could have one, but I am gay. However, I might adopt one).

Anyhow, their shirts in there that costed 100 dollars to 200 dollars. The jackets are really expensive. They are like 1200 dollars for a leather Italian Jacket. And then the dresses in there are like 1000 dollars a piece.

Does that help?

[jiacinto]

3. Well

I've been to the NM in Bal Harbour and love that store. It's just a shame that I can't afford anything there.

[mitchum]

5. It was so soft because it was made out of Italian babies....

seriously

[La_Serpiente]

6. Are you seroius?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. Barney's, Neiman's, Saks

At Saks in NYC I saw a letter opener encrusted w/diamonds for like $75K

[jiacinto]

4. Does Saks just have clothing

or doe sit have a home department?

[Skittles]

7. I don't like those stores - those snooty-ass sales ladies follow me

like I'm gonna steal their stuff. Heck, I'm not wealthy but I MAKE MORE THAN THEY DO.

[jiacinto]

9. They are on comission

That's why they follow you.

[Skittles]

23. BULLSHIT

I DON'T SEE THEM HASSLING THE DECKED-OUT WOMEN SHOPPING.

[jiacinto]

25. Well

I work in retail. They are desperate for sales.

[scarlet_owl]

8. I always feel so out of place at those stores.

Give me good old Goodwill or Salvation Army any day.

[mrbill]

10. i feel a lot more comfortable in wallymart than high-end stores

the greeter doesn't follow you around.

[jiacinto]

11. That's because they are on comission

nt

[mrbill]

12. maybe wallymart needs to put the greeter lady on commission

In those high end stores, the best salepersons are those that appear when you need them. Not the ones who follow you around like you are going to steal something.

Stanley Marcus would agree with this theory.

[jiacinto]

13. I work in retail

We are trained to ask people if they need help. It's not like we are stalking.

But we get graded unfavorably if we don't approach people.

[mrbill]

14. approach once as they enter your department......

...then blend into the background until needed.

Those salepeople who hover make some customers unconfortable.

[jiacinto]

15. I see your point

But then we are told that we are not "helping enough".

[mrbill]

16. advise management to real stanley marcus's book

Think it's called "whose minding the store?"

The salepeople at the orginal neiman marcus stores in dallas were professionals at being there when you needed them. Then they would tell you how good the coat looked and make a few suggestions, then ring up a few extra ties on the sale.

[jiacinto]

17. I will read it when I have enough money to be it

nt

[BrotherBuzz]

18. Use your library!

[jiacinto]

19. Yeah

maybe I should do that. But I like owning.

[SiobhanClancy]

20. The most expensive item...

in the current Nieman Marcus Christmas catalogue is a $12 million Bombardier Learjet,although I doubt if you can actually get it AT the store.

[jiacinto]

21. Ok.

So how do you get it?

[Catshrink]

27. Love the kitty.... nice addition to your sig line

[slackmaster]

22. "Needless Markup" always cracks me up

I walk through it once in a while as a path of convenience. The LEAST expensive bathrobes they had last time I checked were marked down to $300.

[Capn Sunshine]

24. what no Nordstroms?

I'm pretty sure they have some ladies stuff in the 6,000 range.
Mens stuff , I dunno, is 210 for a Hawaiian shirt pricey? The only place left with decent clothes in our end of the world ......

[GoddessOfGuinness]

26. I had to laugh in Saks a few years ago...

They were selling the 70s look, and had a rack of those gawd-awful scratchy polyester pants that would snag as quickly as your nylons.
THIS was high fashion! For $850.00...

[ProudGerman]

28. I'm not up on "high end" department stores

I tend to stay away from stores that offer valet parking. Or the one that always has a stretch limo parked out front. I'd be surprised if I wasn't asked to leave moments after entering.

Two of them just opened in my area, in ridiculous "outdoor" malls ( read no roof). One's a Saks, the other is a Nordstrums. Places for bored West End hausfraus to live beyond their means.