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× Related Photos « Buy Now Buy Now Buy Now » 314-340-8017');"> March 3, 2011 -- Amy McEvoy, 17, of Edwardsville, browses the jeans at the Glik's apparel store in Edwardsville Thursday. The Granite City-based retailer has expanded once again, opening two stores earlier this week: one in Columbia, Missouri and another in Kirksville,New Era Baseball Hats.Christian Gooden cgoodenpost-dispatch.com 314-340-8017');">(2) More Photos Glik's new store that opened Thursday in Columbia, Mo., in manyways defies the Granite City-based retailer's ethos of going intosmall towns of 8,000 to 10,000 people and about 45 minutes from ashopping mall.Columbia has 108,500 residents ï¿½ï¿½ and it has a shopping mall.Jeff Glik, the company's chief executive, is up-front that thestore's success is not a sure thing."We're not saying we're right (for) Columbia," he said. "But wethink we're right."The small Glik's store that opened at Ninth Street and Broadwayin Columbia's downtown retail district is one of five new storesthe company plans to open this year.Glik's, a family-run business that has been around since 1897,remains focused on bringing the latest fashions and brands likeNorth Face, Hurley and Silver Jeans to the 14- to 35-year-olddemographic in small-town USA. But the retailer thinks it alsomight be a good fit for Columbia's downtown retail district, whichis full of small boutiques that cater to the college crowd.Glik's is more confident in making this gamble because of a newsourcing outlet that has helped the company bring the hottestfashion trends to its stores faster than ever.Jeff Glik gushes when he talks about San Pedro Wholesale Mart inthe heart of Los Angeles' fashion district. It was started by thefounders of the popular teen retailer Forever 21. In and aroundthis market are hundreds of fast and nimble wholesalemanufacturers,Sweater Chains, many of whom have nearby factories that are crankingout the latest fashions, he said.These "fast fashion" manufacturers, which he first startedsourcing from about two years ago, have helped Glik's stock its 54stores with whatever hits the fashion magazines ï¿½ï¿½ everything fromone-shouldered dresses to Dolman (or "bat-wing") sleeves,New era yankees hats. And theyhave made it easy for Glik's to add jewelry to its stores for thefirst time."It's completely changed our business," Glik said,www.braceletsaleus.com. "Our businessin women's is the best it's been in 30 years by far."Glik's used to get about 80 percent of its inventory from NewYork wholesalers, who get a lot of their merchandise from China.But these days, he is on a plane at least once a month to LosAngeles, where he now gets about 55 percent of his clothes."The prices are comparable, but when you look at the styling andthe forward fashion you're getting in L.A., it really blows NewYork out of the water," he said. "The big department stores can'treally buy from San Pedro because it's too fast. Basically, whatyou see today is what they ship today. ï¿½ï¿½ They are chasing fashionin the moment. I've never seen anything like this."Glik says this new sourcing outlet has helped boost sales, whichwere up 1 percent last year to $31 million. But even moreimportant, he said, is the half a point in margin growth lastyear.Retailers that focus on small towns such as Glik's and StageStores have historically run into difficulty when they go intobigger towns and compete against national retailers, noted RobertBuchanan, a St. Louis-based retail consultant."It looks like they've learned their lesson for the most partand stuck to smaller towns," he said.One exception to that rule is Buckle, the popular teen storethat started off with a small-town strategy but has since expandedto many suburban m

Note n°4914

par Metcalfe le 01/04/2013 @ 18:18

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Our celebrated ancestor Lucywas no waddling,www.thenewerahats.com, hunched-over ape-woman who felt more at home inthe trees.New research from the University of Missouri in Columbia offersthe most conclusive evidence yet that Lucy and her tribe spenttheir lives on solid ground and walked much as modern humans do -more than 3 million years ago.Lucy, just 3? feet tall, would have been more capable ofstrutting her stuff on a dance floor than of swinging from branchto branch."I bet she could dance," said MU anatomy professor Carol Ward."I don't know if I could do any better."In research to be published Friday in the journal Science,Abercrombie Fitch Bags, Wardand two colleagues used a newly discovered foot bone from a dig inEthiopia to determine that members of Lucy's species,Australopithecus afarensis,www.swarovskijewelryus.com, had arched feet like ours.That may seem like a small detail, but it has huge implicationsfor the course of human evolution.And it may help settle a decades-old argument among scientistsover whether Lucy was a dedicated land rover or still spent much ofher time in trees, as many apes do.Arches put a spring in her step and made it possible tocomfortably stand and walk. But arches also took away theflexibility that lets apes grasp with their feet as they scrambleup trees."Is she a shuffling ape that just stood up?" Ward said. "Thistells us she's given up the ability to be good in trees to be goodon the ground. There was no more compromise."We can walk well over distances, and that started withAustralopithecus. It turned out to be a good plan for us."The possibility that our early ancestors stood upright andwalked with humanlike agility might surprise a lot of people, saidJeremy DeSilva, an anthropologist at Boston University.Classic charts of human evolution often show a series ofpictures of hulking chimplike creatures that gradually become moreupright."The anatomical evidence just doesn't support that view,"DeSilva said. "These (Australopithecus afarensis) were good uprightwalkers."That suggests upright walking was favored early in humanevolution, long before brains grew larger, DeSilva said. Lucy'sbrain wasn't much bigger than that of a chimpanzee.But why did our ancestors leave the safety of the trees for lifeon the ground?One possibility may have been climate change, said BruceLatimer, a paleoanthropologist at Case Western Reserve University.Millions of years ago, huge forests that provided habitat fordozens of species of apes in Europe,www.braceletsaleus.com, Asia and Africa began toshrink.But life on the ground held dangers for a two-legged animal."We're incredibly slow on two limbs," Latimer said. "If weinjure one leg, that makes us leopard food. It's such a peculiarway to get around."The big advantage of standing upright may have been that itfreed the hands of Australopithecus to carry things, Latimersaid.?A social system may have developed where males gathered food fortheir mates and offspring. That gave females the opportunity toraise more children."In evolution,Swarovski crystal chain, the most important thing is having babies,"Latimer said.A decade ago, Latimer visited a site on the edge of theSerengeti plain in Africa where fossilized footprints of three ofLucy's species were discovered.They show a small "Lucy" leading two larger ones single fileover ash from a volcano that had recently erupted. The leaderstopped and looked around. The two others stopped as well. Then thethree began walking again."They could be mistaken for human footprints, except that theywere 3.5 million years old," Latimer said.Based on his own research, Latimer has long advocated that Lucyhad an arched foot, but he never had enough evidence to proveit.?The fossilized bone, the fourth metatarsal, that Ward analyzedwas the key to determining the structure of Lucy's foot, accordingto Latimer.The fossil was found recently by William Kimbel of Arizona StateUniversity. The th

Note n°4913

par tfy4v6a76 le 01/04/2013 @ 18:18

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