An iconic annual gift catalog known for its extravagance has removed the word “Christmas” from its name after a nearly 100-year run.
Neiman Marcus’ “Christmas Book,” in print since 1926, first started as a 16-page booklet. In the years since, it has become popular among the wealthy and bucket list dreamers alike for its “Fantasy Gift.”
The shift from the “Christmas Book” to “Holiday Book” for this year’s catalog has raised hackles inside the 117-year-old company based in Dallas, according to reporting from the New York Post.
New CEO Geoffroy van Raemdonck is rumored to be unpopular inside the company, per sources, having instituted layoffs and internal restructurings.
I’d boycott them if I could but I’ve never spent the first nickel with them.
The first step to ‘Going out of Business Sale’
Needless Mark-ups
It probably wasn’t a bad business move—-I suspect that the kind of people who buy from them would tend to support that. I just regret i can’t hurt them by taking my business elsewhere.
^^^ I fail to understand the logic of pissing off ANY percentage of your customer base!
Particularly when it has been shown to be disastrous!
…from the article…
“If Geoffroy and his team put as much time into running the business as they did on expressing viewpoints about DEI, we would be buying Saks or launching an IPO,” one employee said to the Post. “Instead, my job is at risk because of our business failure.”
…same old story. Get woke, go broke…
Went in a NM store with the wife and daughter while on vacation and had a grand time looking at price tags and laughing. One of my favorites was a pair of women’s “shoes” which were nothing more than thin soles with flimsy, sparkly straps attached, on sale for $700. HAHAHA!
What kind of name is Geoffroy van Raemdonck? He must be Dutch and out of his friggin mind for dissing Christmas like this.
^^^^ He’s from Belgium. The Europeans went full pagan years ago.
At least he didn’t put a 350-lb “model” on the cover under the pretense that she was attractive.
Good. Remove Christ from all of this stupid commercialization.
When I lived in Minnesota, I accidentally walked into a Neiman Marcus store in the Mall of America. They kicked me out because I wasn’t snooty enough. 🤣🤣🤣
SoBeIt
Saturday, 26 October 2024, 15:30 at 3:30 pm
“Went in a NM store with the wife and daughter while on vacation and had a grand time looking at price tags and laughing. One of my favorites was a pair of women’s “shoes” which were nothing more than thin soles with flimsy, sparkly straps attached, on sale for $700. HAHAHA!”
…I went to a mall that had a Sakowitz in it. One look at the $80 (in 1990something) price tag for the silk socks and I knew they werent long for that middle-class suburb…
Why do corporate boards always think that only marxist assholes should run HR and marketing?
Peeman Narkass? Who can afford that shit? Go woke go broke.
Claudia — I don’t understand, didn’t you hold your head back far enough?
In order to be snooty you have to be an arrogant jerk thinking that you’re better than everyone else, because you have an elite egdjamacation and are elite privileged, snotty holier than thou, stuck up looking down your nose and thinking that only you and your elite snobby pals are the best and everyone else are peons. Yep, and that’s why I am not one of them because I actually have morals and principals and believe in God and America as it was founded. They only worship power and themselves and don’t give a damn about anyone else. No thanks, it’s not for me. And they if they’re religious are generally new agey or Episcopalians or some other gobbledegook phony baloney religion that thinks God is either irrelevant or dead.
Many years ago when I was dealing with the Higher End people in jewelry I had a couple that I had taken care of for any number of things except their wedding bands. Had to be ^^^ Needless Markup ^^^ even afterI told them I would give them the same exact bands for about one quarter the price.
Nope! Had to have the Needless Markup hallmark on the inside of the band. I almost said to them, “What are you going to do? Take the bands off to show everybody the trademark on the inside?
People are strange… A high percentage of what I had made for my clientele was fake. Not the metal, but the stones. Duplicated pieces that were real that they actually owned, but insurance dictated how often it could be worn with the way the policy was written. Had to contact the carrier each time it was to be removed from secure location and worn. Want the coverage and want to wear it more often the premium goes up. No one would EVER suspect that what they were wearing was fake.
Then too some of the higher end stuff that you see the celebrities wearing on TV is not theirs (award shows), but on loan looking for exposure and generating possible sales. Ask Mr. Winston…
I could go on with more stories but fail to have the cash to pay the royalty fees to SNS.