WEDDING BILLS RING DOWN MORE COUPLES REGISTER FOR DISCOUNT GIFTS.Byline: Candice Choi Staff Writer Brides and grooms are fleeing department stores This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. and running into the arms of discounters and specialty retailers these days to scoop up Verb 1. scoop up - take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar out of the container" lift out, scoop, scoop out, take up remove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something wedding gifts. Once the primary domain for wedding registries, department stores and national retail chains combined now account for only one-third of registries, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a study released Tuesday by the NPD Group The NPD Group, Inc. is a leading global market research company[1] founded in 1967 and provides consumer and retail information to manufacturers and retailers. Using actual sales data from retailers and distributors as well as consumer-reported purchasing behavior, NPD . ``It's probably somewhat based on the availability of retailers. Department store nameplates are disappearing,'' said Peter Greene
Peter Greene (born October 8 1965, Montclair, New Jersey) is an American actor. A native of Montclair, New Jersey, Greene did not pursue a career in acting until his mid 20s. , analyst with the New York-based NPD Group. Federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. and May department stores The May Department Stores Company was a department store chain founded in 1877 by David May in Leadville, Colorado. Its headquarters moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1905, and the company went public in 1911. announced a merger last month. Sears and Kmart are also set to team up, greatly reducing the players in the industry. Discounters like Target and Wal-Mart have meanwhile steadily expanded stores and sales. One-third of brides reported registering at specialty retailers, including Bed Bath & Beyond and Linens n' Things, and one-third at mass-market retailers like Wal-Mart. Target ranked in the top spot for registries in the study by the NPD Group. Bed Bath & Beyond's growth in bridal registries A bridal registry is a system designed by department stores for the purpose of allowing an engaged couple to manage the purchase of gifts for their wedding. From what is available at the store, the couple creates a list of items that they would like to receive, then the list is over the years has kept pace with the retailer's overall expansion, said Bari Fagin, a company spokeswoman. The desire to give wedding guests a wider and more affordable price range is probably also a factor in the shift to discounters, Greene said. ``(Brides and grooms) want to make shopping as easy as possible for their guests,'' Greene said. That doesn't mean guests stick to the list of wished-for items. Overall, just 33 percent of wedding gifts and 35 percent of shower purchases are based on registries. An additional 10 percent of wedding guests and 12 percent of shower guests use the registry merely as a guide. The remainder of guests make their own decisions on what to buy. Forty- one percent of guests opt to give the newlyweds cash. Bloomingdale's registries still enjoy a steady influx despite the rising popularity of discounters, said spokeswoman Julie Reynolds. Wedding registry events are hosted at stores once or twice a year to get future brides and grooms into the spirit of wedding planning. Each event usually attracts 100 to 150 people. Still, Bloomingdale's is often a complementary place of registry for most brides and grooms, Reynolds said. Brides may register at the upscale department store for higher-end items, but register at an additional retailer for more midrange midrange Epidemiology The halfway point or midpoint in a set of observations; for most data, MR is calculated as the sum of the smallest observation and the largest observation, divided by 2; for age data, one is added to the numerator; a midrange is usually gifts. Newlyweds register at an average of 2 1/2 retailers, according to the study by the NPD Group. Sixty-one percent of brides who were surveyed indicated their grooms were ``very'' or ``somewhat'' involved in making registry decisions. Though grooms are playing an increasing role in picking registry gifts, women are still the primary decision makers. Candice Choi, (818) 713-3634 candice.choi(at)dailynews.com |
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