The village plans to hire a retail consultant to help it attract the right mix of businesses, she added.

His father is a retail consultant in New York.

Now, retail consultants say, department stores must break from the pack and dare to take risks.

Vicki Ross, an international retail consultant and well-known fashion insider, is leading the effort.

But vendors and retail consultants say the intensity of the feuding over them has heightened significantly.

He continues to work as a retail consultant.

Walter Levy, a retail consultant, said the tandem appointment was likely an interim step.

Their parents' shopping patterns have also changed, retail consultants say.

Nothing wrong with that, but it's called store clerk, not retail consultant, and not customer service associate.

But a retail consultant heralded it as a breath of fresh air in an industry notorious for recycling old ideas.