Before, retailers never felt they had to offer higher than minimum wage.

Indeed, it was a rare season in which editors and retailers both felt they had been catered to.

At the same time, the quality of life was improving, so retailers were feeling safer in Harlem, he said.

In painful contrast, financial service companies and retailers would feel the full brunt of this increase.

But some retailers feel more comfortable talking to another human being on the phone, and then it takes a minute.

"When our retailers feel our prices are too high, then we have to take a hard look."

In the old days, retailers felt the same way about women that they did about college boys, only more so.

"Of course, when there's a merger like this, it makes the retailers feel threatened," he said.

Analysts predicted other retailers would also feel the pressure.

But reality in the 1990s mean her story has a side retailers feel they can't ignore and that means it's off sale.