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.
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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.