Problems at the GAP

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    Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP

    Anyone know if Cynthia Harris still works for them?

    <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/gap-ceo-announces-plan-shrink/story.aspx?guid=%7BC8C28CF9-1E60-47D3-AC3A-01661F1AFC1D%7D&dist=msr_3" target="_blank">http://www.marketwatch.com/new...st=msr_3</a>
     
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    Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS

    She resigned in 2007

    <a href="http://www.gapinc.com/public/Media/Press_Releases/med_pr_MarkaHansen020107.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.gapinc.com/public/M...07.shtml</a>
     
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    Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

    Gap -- ouch.

    They really do need to look at the number of stores, what exactly they're selling, and who they're selling to.

    Gap seems to be stuck in a bit of a rut.
     
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    Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP

    or you know, in a gap... (ba dum pum... I'll be here all week folks!)
     
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    Originally Posted By jdub

    Not if you have to explain every joke...
     
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    Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

    I know I'm not in The Gap's demographic, but I just don't understand the store at all. To me, it always seems filled wall-to-wall with very look-alike merchandise. 85 different colors of the same T-shirt for $30 each, many with the word "GAP" across the front. Various jeans. And khaki as far as the eye can see.

    I don't know what is unique about it, or appealing. It doesn't strike me as an especially upscale brand that people would want to pay to be associated with (like current trendy American Eagle, Hollister, etc).

    I don't get it, and even back when I was in The Gap's target age group, I just didn't understand why I'd want to shop there.
     
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    Originally Posted By gurgitoy2

    Does this sound very much like what happened at Disneyland and the rest of the parks under Pressler?

    <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_09/b4023067.htm" target="_blank">http://www.businessweek.com/ma...3067.htm</a>

    It's just interesting that he applied the same practices at the GAP and they backfired just as much as they did at Disney. It sounds like he's just been in the wrong positions at the wrong companies. He's a numbers guy and needs to be at a place where that works...just not creative places like entertainment or fashion...
     
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