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Non-Tech : The Gap -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Beltropolis Boy who wrote (109)	10/28/1999 11:47:00 AM
From: BradleyMarshall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 189

Yes, indeed, currently Old Navy and Banana Republic are carrying the load. I think BR represents %17 of total sales (I'm going on memory here). ON will soon overtake Gap for the lead in total sales. I went to the new "Flagship" ON here in SF the day it opened. It's a monstrous four level building with a dj booth - kicking out your standard dance fare- where you can burn your own dance cd's and check out the web site (which will soon be selling clothes), a restaurant, Torpedo Joe's, which has sandwiches, smoothies, coffe, etc, a lineup of about twenty pairs of kicking legs in ON jeans hanging from the high ceilings, and a bunch of other stuff. It was mobbed. All four floors. But the thing that amazed me was that everyone was there: black, white, hispanic, asian, babies, kids, teens, moms and grandmoms. Everybody loves Old Navy.

To: Beltropolis Boy who wrote (109)	10/28/1999 3:06:00 PM
From: sydney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 189

Thanks for the info in a concise version of discussion...as I said The Gap is the "middle child"...Old Navy is really a copy of Abercrombie at affordable prices...Banana Republic still has JCrew stores to deal with and The Gap...well nothing to say except they had better start appealing to the teenager who is not size 2 or 4, plus their jeans are not "in" style wise ...that is where I see the problem with the Gap...but they do have an excellent "kids "line although Abercrombie has that now too...went up today 3 after my inquiry...I buy on what I see happening around me in this field...this stock you can actually visit first hand.I feel when it takes the next drop I will get in for the Holidays. Are you a Tellabs investor?