Progress Report: Inside Nordstrom 57th Street

NEW YORK — It’s exactly three weeks before the huge Nordstrom women’s flagship opens in Manhattan and the major construction is over, 98 percent of the team has been hired, and merchandise began arriving in earnest last Monday. On Tuesday, WWD took an early tour of the Nordstrom site to get an understanding of a department store in the making and a sense of all the preparations under way. On Sept. 9, the construction company handed the store over to Nordstrom and that’s when the team starting pulling things together. [This is the first in a series of articles leading up to the Nordstrom women’s flagship opening in Manhattan] Inside the 320,000-square-foot, seven-level store, there’s an army of Nordstrom salespeople, department managers, chefs, servers, visual merchandisers, housekeepers — about 1,200 in all — as well as staff from vendor partners, meticulously putting fixtures in place, unpacking merchandise, and in some areas, such as shoes, following the direction of “table menus” taped to tables to designate precisely what brands, trends or categories get placed where. Once the flagship opens, there will be about 900 employees working daily, and about 1,300 in total. Through the store, several product seminars were being led by vendor reps to

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