awalt1234

Neiman Marcus could most likely care less, because they were at Lenox long before those the high-end stores around them were. It's not that Lenox or Phipps is better than the other, it's just that they have different clientele foci. Phipps markets itself towards a more, very wealthy, adult crowd, while Lenox markets itself towards a younger crowd. Their stores aren't even correspondent, so I don't know what that was about. And it isn't that Belk is a crappy department store, it's just that it is a mid-scale department store that doesn't go along with the super-luxury high-end atmosphere of Phipps.

I totally agree. And what is up with Lenox getting all of the luxury high-end retailers like Fendi? Since Simon owns them both now, I think that they should, first, rebrand Phipps into the super-luxury shopping destination it was built for, and, second, ask the high-end retailers at Lenox and the mid-scale stuff that Simon allowed in Phipps to do a little switching around i.e. Bvlgari, Burberry, Ralph Lauren, Faconnable, 7 for all mankind, and Ermengildo Zenga at Lenox with Justice and all the other "tween" and children's clothing stores at Phipps. Don't even get me started on Belk. I think that the Marketing Exec. of Phipps needs to get Belk to go away, and somehow convince the executives of Bergdorf Goodman to create their first branch location