Retailers Must Adapt as Baby Boomers and Gen Y-ers Alter Their Shopping Patterns

Published Tuesday, October 06, 2009

It doesn't seem that long ago that Abercrombie & Fitch was the hottest apparel retailer around. In the past decade it trotted out three new concepts—Hollister Co., Gilly Hicks and RUEHL No.925 to great fanfare each time. But 2009 has been a brutal year for the once white-hot chain. Its year to date plummet in same-store sales of 29.0 percent is jaw dropping, even amid a sea of declining sales reports coming from retailers these days. In fact, Abercrombie & Fitch's number is quite a bit worse than the 6.4 percent drop by the apparel ...

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