Mr. Wood said the city had been courting Fortunoff for several years and was pleased when the Saks site at 100 Bloomingdale Avenue -- the street also has a longstanding Bloomingdale's store -- became available.
A recent cover story in the trade journal Christian Retailing noted smaller stores' "longstanding complaints of being undercut" by big-box chains as the track record of faith-based entertainment products has become more widely known.
"There is a saying here that at Christmas Mass you know who had a good season — you can smell it in their overcoats," Sandra Cantalini, who comes from a family of longtime growers, said of the longstanding practice of storing the dried saffron stigmas in a closet or armoire.
In his blog "Vanishing New York," Jeremiah Moss chronicles how the city is "going extinct," and tracks how longstanding cultural institutions record stores, coffee shops, and of course, dive bars are all too commonly knocked down in favor of high rises.
At the longstanding mom-and-pop stores, he knows everyone from the owners (and their parents) to the delivery staff.
Faced with an economic slump, a growing number of national retailers are abandoning the longstanding tradition of reporting monthly store sales and forecasting annual profits.
We were unable to find any information beyond longstanding health warnings about covering stored water to prevent dengue fever and chikungunya, and long-overdue public campaigns aimed at reducing water waste and usage.
Toysrus.com and its majority shareholder Toys 'R' Us toy will use their longstanding relationships with toy manufacturers to stock the store and its years of offline retail experience to manage inventory for the venture.
"This was a store I had a longstanding relationship with".
Today, since mobile developers can simply "self-publish" just by putting their apps in the store, there's a pretty longstanding debate about what value publishers can really add.
