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Why you should never wash your jeans

Laundry is inevitable, but thankfully there are people like Levi’s CEO and President Chip Bergh who want to make our lives a little easier. According to him, you should never wash a pair of jeans. Ever. While this may prompt noises of disgust from those are less-then-enamoured by the idea of walking around in dirty clothes, Mr Bergh explained that he "spot cleans" any stains with a toothbrush.

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12 Sneaky Ways to Save Money When You Beauty Shop

Your Next Step Podiatry

Make an appointment with one of our doctors for an evaluation to see if you qualify for a pair of shoes.

A Gift Guide for the Shoe Lover

A gift guide for the shoe lover in your life, even if that's you.

Getting rid of old clothes? These department stores offer discounts for clothing donations

If you’re ready to clean out your closet and donate old clothes, you might want to consider giving them to a department store. Stores across the country are taking used clothing and giving discounts to purchase new clothes.

Do Department Stores Have a Future?

Department stores aren't going anywhere, but they have a lot of work to do to keep shoppers -- and the brands they stock -- happy.

Are Influencer Brands the Key to Bringing Millennials to Department Stores?

Nordstrom and Barneys are finding success in the burgeoning world of influencer brands for whom promotion and feedback are built-in.

Department Stores Must Do More Than Just Survive

The latest batch of earnings shows chains from Kohl's to Macy's are making progress. That doesn’t mean they’re thriving.

Macy's is making a move that signals the death of department stores as we know them

Macy's is shrinking the size of some of its less productive stores and cutting back on staff.

Macy's just signaled the end of department stores as we know them

The department-store chain is testing self-service systems, meaning customers would serve themselves instead of finding a salesperson.

Is Bloomie's the future of department stores?

The concept store may prove the company's agility and ability to bring in new audiences.

what does the future hold?

Rob Fletcher looks at what the future might hold for department stores and how they are evolving to cope with the changing market

Where is money spent? Not department stores, new data finds

Despite consumers continuing to splurge on dining out, several retail categories saw...

What can clothing retailers do with all that excess inventory?

With clothing sales way down, there are not a lot of good options.

5 Tricks Department Stores Use to Get You to Spend More

Every business uses techniques to get you to spend more. But understanding those tricks can help you keep more money in your bank account.

Why cotton is so difficult to recycle—and how clothing retailers hope to change that

So far nobody has hit on the kind of large-scale solution that could change the industry.

When your retailer asks to trade electronically with EDI

It can come as a shock to a vendor a supplier when a retailer requires them to have EDI, before they'll even consider signing an agreement.

Department stores are dying. Could this shopping app replace them?

The Yes is a shopping app that uses AI to give you all the variety of a department store with none of the headaches.

Does fair trade clothing help the consumer and the retailer?

Following another tragic fire at a Bangladesh clothing factory, retailers are now ceding to consumer demand and putting the exact origins of their products on the label. But will this “fair trade” practice hurt the bottom line? And will those same consumers actually buy the more expensive fair trade products, or reach for the cheaper item on the next rack?