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of the hybrid stores will debut next year in a pilot program. " We bel=
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appeal to existing customers and also attract new customers to the full sto=
re," said Chairman and CEO Terry Lundgren during a Wednesday conferenc=
e call to announce the company's third-quarter earnings, noting that the Ba=
ckstage initiative has already attracted younger consumers. Macy's opened s=
ix Backstage outlets in the New York City metro area earlier this year, and=
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ed sales from existing full-priced Macy's located nearby, Mr. Lundgren said=
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voted to Backstage and include new categories such as home. It's the latest=
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<td colspan=3D"2" id=3D"Xuwoj28"><p> </p> <p>In addition to focu=
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company already hosts cosmetic shops from Bluemercury, which it bought earl=
ier this year, and electronics sites from Best Buy. On Wednesday, the chain=
also announced it will feature LensCrafters shops in 500 stores over the n=
ext three years in a deal with Luxottica Group S.p.A. In addition, it recen=
tly debuted a new technology-laden shop for brand Perry Ellis in its Herald=
Square men's department. Macy's collaborated with agency The Science Proje=
ct on the section, which features floating, interactive mirrors for custome=
rs. Like other retailers, Macy's is battling unseasonably warm weather this=
fall and may be overstocked on cold-weather and other inventory, analysts =
said. They expect department stores, including the Cincinnati-based chain, =
to suffer a loss in margin if they're forced to discount such goods. Long b=
efore it was renamed Macy's, the department store of choice here was Rich's=
Opening just after the Civil War, it drew generations of Atlantans with i=
ts coconut cake and the Pink Pig, a Christmastime children's train. Now, af=
ter years of ownership by New York-based Macy's, the old Rich's stores are =
feeling a bit more like Atlanta again. The generic display near an entrance=
at the Cumberland Mall store, for example, has been replaced with a rack o=
f white satin suits ? yes, even in October. ? We have a lot of mega-churche=
s here in Atlanta, and for first Sunday, the mothers of the church wear whi=
te all year long,? said Terry McDonald, a human resources manager for Macy'=
s Cumberland and surrounding stores, referring to a church service held onc=
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<td colspan=3D"2" id=3D"Auiqwh8buh2gyus"><p> </p> <p>After decad=
es of acquiring, consolidating and centralizing, the department store chain=
is rediscovering ? and financially exploiting ? its multiple local roots, =
advancing a trend that is quickly being adopted by other retailers like It =
is a lesson many companies overlooked in the last 30 years as they rolled s=
maller stores into huge national brands, and headquarters mandated what the=
outlets in Biloxi or Boise should sell. But years of economic turmoil for =
the retail industry have helped refresh memories. While many national retai=
lers continue to see sales declines in a sour economy, Macy's says its firs=
t full year of ? going local? has helped increase sales significantly and ?=
lifted the entire Macy's performance,? according to its chairman and chief=
executive, Terry J. Lundgren. Macy's is on track to add $1 billion in sale=
s in 2010 from stores open more than a year, he said. The retailer had $23.=
5 billion in sales in 2009. ? We have research information, and we think ab=
out household income and population size, but I think it's much more accura=
te to have people living in the marketplace tell you, ? This is who's shopp=
ing in my store,' ? Mr. Lundgren said. The trend leaves some shoppers cold =
? Macy's makeover of stores here has not stopped the longing for the real R=
ich's among many Atlantans ? but retail analysts say stores of all types ar=
e increasingly experimenting with local assortments to spur sales wherever =
they can. ? In prior years, with the recession, it became all about cost-cu=
tting no matter what,? said Esteban Bowles, a retail consultant with A. T. =
Kearney. ? Now companies are seeing the light and looking for the rebound.?=
Macy's tested its new local approach in a handful of stores in 2008, intro=
ducing it in all 810 stores last year. In essence, Macy's requires sales cl=
erks and store managers to examine the local population almost like anthrop=
ologists ? studying, for example, what churchgoing black women here in Atla=
nta shop for compared with the shopping habits of Microsoft wives, as emplo=
yees call one segment of shoppers in the store in Bellevue, Wash. At the sa=
me time, the retailer doubled its staff overseeing store assortments and de=
creased the stores that staff members dealt with. It required the people re=
sponsible for merchandise assortment to visit stores daily, added log books=
at each register where sales clerks entered suggestions from shoppers, and=
introduced a review process so the staff visiting stores could make recomm=
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