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Family-Owned Bergen County Indian Clothing Shop Rethinks Business Amid Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a family who owns a Bergen County clothing store to rethink business.
Advance Apparels owners Akash, Prithvi and Manju Bajaj have had experience with authentic Indian garments even before opening the South Hackensack store in 2001.
“My father at the time was working at MetLife but leveraged his experience managing clothing factories from his time in India to start a clothing brand on the side,” Akash, 27, told Daily Voice.
For years, Akash, his father, Prithvi, and his mother, Manju, had a routine that worked: they’d spend the first several month…
Neiman Marcus Markdown Store Among 17 Closing Across U.S.
Neiman Marcus has announced the closure of four department stores and 17 of its "Last Call" locations across the U.S. including one in Paramus.
The luxury department store chain filed for bankruptcy in May.
The Paramus store at Bergen Town Center, the 16 other markdown stores and the four department stores are expected to close by the fall of this year.
The other "Last Call" locations closing are in New York, Florida, Washington, California, Texas, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland and Nevada.
“As part of our Chapter 11 proceedings, we provided to the court a list of Neiman Marcus st…
