{"id":871,"date":"2004-12-26T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2004-12-26T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=871"},"modified":"2004-12-26T00:00:38","modified_gmt":"2004-12-26T00:00:38","slug":"an_identity_cri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"An Identity Crisis at Lands End?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/25\/business\/25retail.html?ex=1261717200&#038;en=d522a3b96449fe90&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt\">Aaron Nathans<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Lands&#8217; End was one of the most brilliant brands of the 20th century, and under Sears, one of the most irrelevant brands of the 21st century,&#8221; said Burt Flickinger III, managing partner at the Strategic Resource Group, a retail consultant in New York. &#8220;Lands&#8217; End in the Sears stores is poorly positioned in between men&#8217;s suits, snow blowers, tools, denim and work clothes.&#8221;<br \/>\nAs for bringing Lands&#8217; End products into the Kmart stores, Mr. Flickinger said: &#8220;J. Crew, Eddie Bauer and Abercrombie &#038; Fitch would never stand to have their brand image eroded by going down-market to Kmart. Kmart is associated more with a rough-and-tumble blue-collar consumer.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems obvious that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landsend.com\">Lands  End<\/a> will be spun off or sold at some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Nathans: &#8220;Lands&#8217; End was one of the most brilliant brands of the 20th century, and under Sears, one of the most irrelevant brands of the 21st century,&#8221; said Burt Flickinger III, managing partner at the Strategic Resource Group, a retail consultant in New York. &#8220;Lands&#8217; End in the Sears stores is poorly positioned in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}