HigthaVandah
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Tangentially, business travel brought me near the US Celine outlet a few weeks ago. It was miserable. Awful selection but almost no monogrammed items. Five racks of RTW with more women's stuff up front and more men's stuff in back, but no definitive distinction. Mostly wide-legged jeans and various other types of wide pants with a few nice but unconvincing dresses and blouses and a few of the stranger leather jackets. Some triomphe purses that looked nice enough but I didn't look closer.
My SA had a canned explanation: Stores with great outlets are intended to be outlet stores, while the few Celine outlets really do just sell whatever crap people won't buy at retail. Fair enough, but this was so bad they almost may as well not bother.
But then again I did find something I wanted, and now I have a long distance outlet SA. Should be interesting to see what they get over the next few seasons...
My SA had a canned explanation: Stores with great outlets are intended to be outlet stores, while the few Celine outlets really do just sell whatever crap people won't buy at retail. Fair enough, but this was so bad they almost may as well not bother.
But then again I did find something I wanted, and now I have a long distance outlet SA. Should be interesting to see what they get over the next few seasons...