Temper falls as building raises
Progress is pounded in
With the new Gibson store opening scheduled for mid-November, a construction crew shows that teamwork is essential to meeting deadlines. Work is being completed on the parking lot.
Oct. 29
1969 KANSAN 11
Opening a new store can mean long hours, and usually short tempers, for the store manager.
But Art Cromer, manager of the new Gibson store, is as far from being short-tempered as a man in his position can be.
Cromer, a 1959 graduate of the KU School of Business, is manager of the chain discount department store that is located at 25th and Iowa. The store is due to open sometime in mid-November. There is still a lot of interior work and stocking of merchandise to be done, but Cromer feels confident that the store will open close to the deadline.
Cromer works long hours, usually staying at the store until 9 p.m. or later. He has done much of the hiring of employees for the new store, which will start with about 85 students working there. Despite the hectic pace of trying to get everything itemized and in the right place, Cromer is willing to spend time talking to new and prospective employees.
The Gibson chain has about 500 retail stores, one of the fastest growing chains in the country. Last year it had over $1 billion in sales. Cromer has worked for the Gibson chain about three and a half years. Before that, he was employed by J. C. Penney, Inc.
The new store has about 69,300 square feet of floor space, with parking space for close to 700 cars. The hours of the store will be nine to nine on weekdays and Saturdays and nine to six on Sundays. Cromer said that this is now a standard practice in the general merchandise retail field, adding that the store closes only on Christmas and Easter.
Plaster and electrical wiring are the furnishings of Art
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