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Anonymous wrote:The profit horizon for any company is this: Create a desirable product that is profitable. 2) Increase profits by growing your sales base (marketing, expansion, etc.) 3) Eventually you reach cant grow sales base anymore so your grow profits by cutting costs. 4) Eventually the value proposition goes away for consumers, close business.

You have the 4 wrong. It's should say: rent clothing so that customers no longer care about the durability of their clothing. See, like Ann Taylor has already started doing. https://www.infinitestylebyanntaylor.com.

Lol I saw Express does a clothing rental service...Express clothing is junk that is only good for one wear anyway!

At this point, Express has higher quality than AT. Brands shift- Express shifted up and AT shifted down. Express is now doing better on quality than BR, too.

OP here. Wow, I had no idea! I'm going to have to peek in.

Express is still junky clothing for college girls

It's one of the few mainstream retail brands that makes its clothes with a size 2 woman in mind. The materials are normal to above average compared to JCrew, AT, etc. But they fit better for thinner because they are designed for smaller sizes. These brands that design for size 8ish don't drape well. You can't simply make clothing bigger or smaller with the same design because it doesn't fit the same across body types.

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Anonymous wrote:The profit horizon for any company is this: Create a desirable product that is profitable. 2) Increase profits by growing your sales base (marketing, expansion, etc.) 3) Eventually you reach cant grow sales base anymore so your grow profits by cutting costs. 4) Eventually the value proposition goes away for consumers, close business.

You have the 4 wrong. It's should say: rent clothing so that customers no longer care about the durability of their clothing. See, like Ann Taylor has already started doing. https://www.infinitestylebyanntaylor.com.

Lol I saw Express does a clothing rental service...Express clothing is junk that is only good for one wear anyway!

At this point, Express has higher quality than AT. Brands shift- Express shifted up and AT shifted down. Express is now doing better on quality than BR, too.

OP here. Wow, I had no idea! I'm going to have to peek in.

Express is still junky clothing for college girls

Time to visit a personal shopper...

Even when I browse stores that are above my price range and do wishful shopping, there’s rarely anything I see that I would actually want to have. I spent some time looking for a splurge work outfit to actually buy, not just look, at Neiman Marcus and found nothing, and it wasn’t the prices that put me off. I just don’t know where to go any more.

I refuse to buy anything polyester. That is the worst of the lot. It’s uncomfortable, tacky and you stink in it wiithin 5 mins.

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Anonymous wrote:The profit horizon for any company is this: Create a desirable product that is profitable. 2) Increase profits by growing your sales base (marketing, expansion, etc.) 3) Eventually you reach cant grow sales base anymore so your grow profits by cutting costs. 4) Eventually the value proposition goes away for consumers, close business.

You have the 4 wrong. It's should say: rent clothing so that customers no longer care about the durability of their clothing. See, like Ann Taylor has already started doing. https://www.infinitestylebyanntaylor.com.

Lol I saw Express does a clothing rental service...Express clothing is junk that is only good for one wear anyway!

At this point, Express has higher quality than AT. Brands shift- Express shifted up and AT shifted down. Express is now doing better on quality than BR, too.

Express has gone wayyyy down hill. They were much better 5 years ago and their jeans were actually nice, now everything is stretchy

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This is happening for most brands, unfortunately, as companies find ways to make cheaper clothes for less.

One important point to think about: plastic microbeads that are ingested by fish and then ingested by us. They come in part from clothing made from artificial plastic fibers that disintegrates in the soil and water.

Please vote with your money and choose natural fibers whenever possible!

This, so many brands have gone down hill and it seems like everything is made out of man made garbage not real fibers.

Agree- I used to go in there, fall in love with so many items, buy them and wear them for years. They looked great and would last well.
Now I walk in, see nothing and the few items I have bought look awful after a couple of wears...

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Anonymous wrote:The profit horizon for any company is this: Create a desirable product that is profitable. 2) Increase profits by growing your sales base (marketing, expansion, etc.) 3) Eventually you reach cant grow sales base anymore so your grow profits by cutting costs. 4) Eventually the value proposition goes away for consumers, close business.

You have the 4 wrong. It's should say: rent clothing so that customers no longer care about the durability of their clothing. See, like Ann Taylor has already started doing. https://www.infinitestylebyanntaylor.com.

Lol I saw Express does a clothing rental service...Express clothing is junk that is only good for one wear anyway!

At this point, Express has higher quality than AT. Brands shift- Express shifted up and AT shifted down. Express is now doing better on quality than BR, too.

OP here. Wow, I had no idea! I'm going to have to peek in.

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Anonymous wrote:The profit horizon for any company is this: Create a desirable product that is profitable. 2) Increase profits by growing your sales base (marketing, expansion, etc.) 3) Eventually you reach cant grow sales base anymore so your grow profits by cutting costs. 4) Eventually the value proposition goes away for consumers, close business.

You have the 4 wrong. It's should say: rent clothing so that customers no longer care about the durability of their clothing. See, like Ann Taylor has already started doing. https://www.infinitestylebyanntaylor.com.

Lol I saw Express does a clothing rental service...Express clothing is junk that is only good for one wear anyway!

At this point, Express has higher quality than AT. Brands shift- Express shifted up and AT shifted down. Express is now doing better on quality than BR, too.

I love COS. Great quality and good price points. But it is edgier than AT and you have to like black, a lot. They do have some other colors for spring right now though! You can also find some great things at Nordstrom but usually the higher price point stuff if you’re looking for nicer fabrics and quality. I only buy things on sale at J Crew, Anthro, Madewell etc anymore, and they are ALWAYS having sales anyway.

Funny I agree with the overall decline in clothing but out of the rubble Ive actually found some nice things at AT

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Anonymous wrote:The profit horizon for any company is this: Create a desirable product that is profitable. 2) Increase profits by growing your sales base (marketing, expansion, etc.) 3) Eventually you reach cant grow sales base anymore so your grow profits by cutting costs. 4) Eventually the value proposition goes away for consumers, close business.

You have the 4 wrong. It's should say: rent clothing so that customers no longer care about the durability of their clothing. See, like Ann Taylor has already started doing. https://www.infinitestylebyanntaylor.com.

On the one hand, I appreciate risk-taking and innovation. On the other...I like Rent the Runway because I have access to clothing I can't really afford, even for a short time. I felt like a million bucks in a $600 cocktail dress I got as part of one month of Unlimited for $99...so I got a whole month of clothing and wore that awesome dress for a fraction of the price of buying a dress I could only realistically wear 2-3 times my whole life.

But AT clothes? It's not that I can't afford them, or even a whole lot of them. It's that I don't WANT them. I used to crave them when I worked there part-time; the cashmere especially. But now it is all crap. I had a $20 off coupon which included sale merchandise. I walked around for an hour before I settled on a boring blue top that at least was made of semi-nice-feeling material and was a pretty color. I paid $2 or it out of pocket, but like...I felt like I just had to go through with it.

And that's when I decided; never again. I'd rather pay a lot more for what Tim Gunn calls "soul-stirring" clothes.

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Anonymous wrote:The profit horizon for any company is this: Create a desirable product that is profitable. 2) Increase profits by growing your sales base (marketing, expansion, etc.) 3) Eventually you reach cant grow sales base anymore so your grow profits by cutting costs. 4) Eventually the value proposition goes away for consumers, close business.

You have the 4 wrong. It's should say: rent clothing so that customers no longer care about the durability of their clothing. See, like Ann Taylor has already started doing. https://www.infinitestylebyanntaylor.com.

Lol I saw Express does a clothing rental service...Express clothing is junk that is only good for one wear anyway!

Anonymous wrote:The profit horizon for any company is this: Create a desirable product that is profitable. 2) Increase profits by growing your sales base (marketing, expansion, etc.) 3) Eventually you reach cant grow sales base anymore so your grow profits by cutting costs. 4) Eventually the value proposition goes away for consumers, close business.

You have the 4 wrong. It's should say: rent clothing so that customers no longer care about the durability of their clothing. See, like Ann Taylor has already started doing. https://www.infinitestylebyanntaylor.com.