Dallas v. Houston Luxury Shopping- 2013 (San Antonio, Austin: costs, eat, pay)

[dollaztx]

On the other hand if ya'll want to go by those three stores:

1. Dallas - Nordstom 4, Neiman Marcus 4, Total = 8
2. Houston - Nordstrom 1, Saks 1, Neiman Marcus 1, Total = 3

[brightman79]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

Fixed your fixing, lol.

This is getting to be a long list. It would only be funny if El Paso still had a Saks.

[brightman79]

Originally Posted by dollaztx

On the other hand if ya'll want to go by those three stores:

1. Dallas - Nordstom 4, Neiman Marcus 4, Total = 8
2. Houston - Nordstrom 1, Saks 1, Neiman Marcus 1, Total = 3

I was just in the Downtown Neiman Marcus yesterday. I did like all 10 pairs of men's shoes they had!

And 1 of those Nordstrom as well as 1 of those Neiman's is in Fort Worth.

[TXT]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

The CEO of Prada said it best:

Well there you have it. That's as good as it gets.

[brightman79]

Originally Posted by dollaztx

On the other hand if ya'll want to go by those three stores:

1. Dallas - Nordstom 4, Neiman Marcus 4, Total = 8
2. Houston - Nordstrom 1, Saks 1, Neiman Marcus 1, Total = 3

And by this logic, New York City only has 1 Saks, 1 Bloomingdales, and 1 Bergdorf Goodman.......but if you put all of Dallas's dept stores (and yes we will include Macy's and Dillard's) together, they are still half the size of those three in New York. Quantity means nothing.

[HtownLove]

I was going to the Luxury double decker Walmart in Dallas the other day but stopped at the luxury 7 eleven to buy a luxury Slurppy.

Ah, Dallas and its pretentiousness

[PostOak5115]

To say San Antonio is ahead of Dallas is insane. Houston and Dallas are the luxury juggernauts and have been for the past 30 years. They work more as team to bring luxury shopping to Texas. It's good competition for both cities to recruit luxury retail. Most all designers see Texas as the last piece of the real America mostly due to its pro-growth attitude and the women that dress up for dinner and proud of it.

Dallas and Houston are home to some of the best dressed women, and unlike LA and NYC there are no stylists and publicists so they pay full retail for most items.

Texas is famous for its bold-face named socialites, such as Lynn Wyatt and Becca Cason Thrash both from Houston. When Lynn's friends such Carolina Herrera and Tory Burch come to Houston, they bunk at her house rather than the St. Regis. Becca staged a Christian Lacroix Haute Couture fashion show in her manse. This was the first ever Christian Lacroix show outside of Paris.

Houston use to have its own version of Neimans called Sakowitz a victim of the 80's oil bust.
Neiman Marcus built it's first store outside of Dallas in Houston in 1970 with the Galleria, and right down the road from Saks and Sakowitz. So we see there is strong connection between both cities.

[TXT]

Originally Posted by brightman79

I was just in the Downtown Neiman Marcus yesterday. I did like all 10 pairs of men's shoes they had!

And 1 of those Nordstrom as well as 1 of those Neiman's is in Fort Worth.

Exactly, NM Downtown Dallas, FW and Willow Bend don't crack $50 million a year and often hurt for business. As well, the Nostrom Dallas Galleria is a joke and the one in Frisco is basically a Macy's.

THATS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE MARKET IS WEAK HYPED AND OVERSATURATED...like Dallas, just for show.

Dallas' additional NM and Nordstrom stores are what the industry calls 'B' and 'C' level stores. The only A level or flagship NM and Nordstrom stores in Dallas are at NorthPark.

ALL of Houston's luxury stores are A-level Flagships that do hundreds of millions of dollars a year, so Houston doesn't OVERSATURATE with unnecessary B and C level sataellite stores...just to say they have them.

[binkyman]

Originally Posted by dollaztx

On the other hand if ya'll want to go by those three stores:

1. Dallas - Nordstom 4, Neiman Marcus 4, Total = 8
2. Houston - Nordstrom 1, Saks 1, Neiman Marcus 1, Total = 3

Add Stanley Korshak to the list.

[dollaztx]

The problem with Saks lies within the structure of their company. It's also a victim of showrooming like Best Buy. They have closed 1/3 of their stores and will continue to do so.