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Alex Faherty still secretly rearranges department store racks to feature his products
“You don't ask permission. You just do it. We still do it. But the, we still do it. Like I went to Bloomingdale's yesterday and I moved our stuff and like moved something out.”
Nouri: Independent retailers outperform department stores for novel products needing in-person explanation
“The independent designers or the independent retailers did so much more for us because they could explain the product in person, and so their sales volume was so good, I didn't really need to be in those stores.”
The Knot topped Bloomingdale's wedding registry within months of launching online
“Within, I think, three or four months... We had close to a 150,000 couples registered in our registry. To put that into context, that's more than what Bloomingdale's was registering back then.”
Xu: 1990s Department Store Home Goods Were Completely Disconnected from Fashion
“Furnitures were very ornate. It has a lot of very, you know, gilded finish. And then the plates are like Laura Ashley prints, you know, very small, grandma's wallpaper floral. And I'm just wondering, the person who is so confident walking on the street will go…”
Bloomingdale's only ever placed a single order with EO Products
“It crushed it, but crushing it from the other side, I think they ordered once.”
Liu: The Knot registered 150,000 couples in months, surpassing Bloomingdale's
“And we suddenly saw within, I think, three or four months, We had close to a 150,000 couples registered in our registry. To put that into context, that's more than what Bloomingdale's was registering back then.”
Bloomingdale's initially rejected S'well because they did not sell water bottles
“You know, I wrote that manifesto, that, that small business plan, and said, you know, we're gonna be sold in Bloomingdale's, and the buyer said, no way, we don't sell water bottles.”
A 1995 Bloomingdale's catalog order prompted the creation of EO Products
“So in 1995, Bloomingdale's called and said, will you make us Four essential oil blends for our holiday catalog. I know, we said sure, and we had to think of a name for the company then, and these were very small bottles, so, you know, we didn't have a lot of r…”
Bloomingdale's initial 1995 holiday catalog order from EO Products was $15,000
“It was, I think 15,000 dollars.”
Xu: 1990s department store home decor was disconnected from modern fashion
“And then I would always end in a home department, and it would always give me a lot of questions, because it would look like it's in the 19 twenties. Furnitures were very ornate. It has a lot of very, you know, gilded finish. And then the plates are like Laura…”