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Waldenbooks' outlet's sales, but far below the $ 750,000 level needed to make a discount outlet profitable. Instead of converting more individual Waldenbooks stores to discount outlets, as of June 1, Reader's Market outlets will be opened as stores within stores at six K mart outlets in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Reader's Markets will retain their name in the K marts, taking up about 1,500 square feet, half the size of a typical Waldenbooks store. If successful, Reader's Markets will be expanded to other K mart outlets. Waldenbooks is revamping its response to discounters by scaling back its own discount chain in favor of units in K mart stores. And it is turning to an ambitious super bookstore -- called Waldenbooks & More -- to propel growth by selling everything from computer software to stuffed animals. The first Waldenbooks & More opened in November on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown, L.I. At 10,000 square feet, it's more than triple the space of an average Waldenbooks store, and stocks about 35,000 book titles, more than twice the number in average stores.
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malls and similar high-traffic locations - than any other bookstore chain, and accounted for 15% of all bookstore sales. In 1987, the chain operated 1,179 Waldenbooks outlets (including 50 U.S. Coles stores bought that year from the
Canadian chain); seven Waldenbooks & More, eight Waldensoftware, 28 Waldenkids, and 18 Brentano's outlets; and serviced book departments in Kmart stores. (Waldenbooks converted most Brentano's outlets into Waldenbooks after buying the chain in 1984, but later began opening new Brentano's as an upscale mall store brand enabling it to operate two bookstores in selected malls.) In 1992, Kmart added Borders Books' small but rapidly growing superstore operator to its portfolio. Under Kmart ownership, Borders grew from 19 to 75 stores while Waldenbooks shrank from a peak of nearly 1,300 stores to 1,127 in early 1995.
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name is taken from its principal executives: Edward W. Carter, board chairman; Philip M. Hawley, president; and
Prentis C. Hale, chairman of the executive committee. Operating divisions will retain their present names. The company said "Broadway-Hale" was too often confused with the Broadway Stores reatiling unit.
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Broadway-Hale Stores Inc. directors decided it was time for a change they just looked around the table. The Los Angeles firm, parent of the Broadway Stores, Neiman-Marcus, Capwell's and other retail operations, will be known as Carter Hawley Hale Stores Inc., if the shareholders approve. THe
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Our Firm", he says, "was founded the day in 1933 when all the banks in the country closed. It was an auspicious start. I walked in on the head of Filene's in Boston and made my pitch, namely to run a leased book department. 'By the way', he asked after listening to me, 'what is your company's name?'
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chain with the original intent of converting the stores to the
Waldenbooks brand, However, Waldenbooks discovered that when they continued to operate the newly acquired stores as Brentano's, the new stores were generating more sales than equivalent Waldenbooks, so Waldenbooks decided to continue and
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Corporation today announced 1993 sales and operating results for the Borders-Walden Group, representing Kmart's retail book subsidiaries, Borders and Walden Book Company, which have been combined to form the new retail bookstore group. The Borders-Walden Group operates 44 Borders stores in 21
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Borders Inc. in October, said Borders will run all of Kmart's extra-large book superstores. As of Feb. 1, Borders will manage its own 22 book superstores, which operate under the name Borders Book Shops, plus four Basset Book Shop superstores now
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Waldenbooks will be opening stores in its two newest fields shortly, both outside its traditional bailiwick: software and children's educational toys. Waldensoftware, which will sell about 7,500 different software titles for the personal computer market, will open its first store in June in Darien,
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Waldenbooks & More stores that included merchandise beyond books, WaldenSoftware computer software stores, and WaldenKids educational toys stores. In 1987, Waldenbooks acquired the U.S. stores
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Stamford, Conn. The chain plans to open 50 more superstores, dubbed Bassett Bookshops, by the end of 1993. The store is not being marketed under the Waldenbooks name
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Waldenbooks tried its own hand at discounting. Last year it closed five conventional, money-making Waldenbook stores in the New York area, and reopened them as Reader's Market stores, offering discounts of 10% to 35% on all books. But the stores had produced average annual sales of only $ 600,000,
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after Carter Hawley Hale needed to get cash to defend itself from a hostile takeover attempt. At that time, Waldenbooks was the largest retail bookstore chain. Under Kmart's ownership, Walden attempted to expand and diversify its business. In 1985, it opened a discount book outlet chain called
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Beginning in 2004, many Waldenbooks locations were rebranded as Borders Express stores. Borders Group, in an attempt to increase profits and lower the overall expense of their Waldenbooks brand, also announced that it was downsizing the Waldenbooks chain to respond to the current "competitive
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When Kmart decided to spin off its noncore subsidiaries in 1994, Kmart merged Waldenbooks, Brentano's, and Borders to form the Borders-Walden Group. At that time, Waldenbooks had 1,216 stores in all 50 states. In 1995, the renamed Borders Group was able to buy back its
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Reader's Market by converting five existing stand-alone Waldenbooks stores. A year later, Walden discontinued the discount bookstores after disappointing sales figures. Walden later tried this concept within selected Kmart stores.
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Conn. Waldenkids, which will sell educational toys and games for children under 12 years old, will open in four locations in April (Los Angeles; Columbia, Mo.; Atlanta, and Pittsburgh), and two more in Connecticut in June.
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Hoyt opened the first Walden bookstore in Pittsburgh in 1962. Within 15 years, the company had grown to over 250 locations in leased locations within various department stores. With the increased availability of low-cost
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because consumers associate the name too strongly with the mall stores. Not to mention that the name Bassett Bookshop evokes more of that warm, fuzzy feeling the store is aiming for.
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