{"id":15599,"date":"2010-08-31T04:57:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T12:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=15599"},"modified":"2010-08-31T00:07:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T08:07:49","slug":"j-crew-to-offer-outlet-store-items-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/style\/fashion\/j-crew-to-offer-outlet-store-items-online","title":{"rendered":"J.Crew to Offer Outlet Store Items Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

OMG exciting alert \u00e2\u20ac\u201c J.Crew plans to put its outlet store clothing up for sale online starting next month! {WSJ<\/a>} You know what that means: no more driving to out of the way shopping centers and strip malls to score J.Crew cheapies.
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Now you can experience JCrew Outlet sales prices online!<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Actually, clothing companies purposely open outlet stores in off the beaten path locations so that consumer demand will not overwhelm them and drive revenue away from main stores. {DailyFinance<\/a>} The decision to put outlet clothing online is thus a gutsy one for J.Crew, but makes sense.<\/p>\n

DailyFinance<\/a> points out that online and outlet stores have shown significant growths despite the struggling economy. Earlier this year, we found that online shoppers in the $100,000+\/year household income bracket<\/a> are visiting sample sale sites like Gilt and Rue La La in greater numbers than more recognizable luxury retailers such as Barneys and Bergdorf Goodman. Perhaps, then, an online-outlet venue will have even more success than online and outlet stores have had individually.<\/p>\n

J.Crew\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s executives told the Wall Street Journal<\/a> that consumers are more hesitant to spend money on clothing in full-priced stores these days. Customers are “deferring, they’re waiting, they’re comparison-shopping, and people are a little nervous,” CEO Millard Drexler said. J.Crew did see profits nearly double at the end of the second quarter, pulling in $34.9 million.<\/p>\n

We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll follow up and let you know how the online outlet store works for J.Crew. Given the continuing success of mid-range retailers and designer discount sites, hopefully more of our favorite clothing companies will follow suit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OMG exciting alert \u00e2\u20ac\u201c J.Crew plans to put its outlet store clothing up for sale online starting next month! You know what that means: no more driving to out of the way shopping centers and strip malls to score J.Crew cheapies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[779,344,4380,4381],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15599"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15611,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599\/revisions\/15611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}