Retailing legend Betty Price talks about her Liebermann's gift store in downtown Lansing, MI, customer services, and collaboration with designer George Nelson
Retailing legend Betty Price talks about her Liebermann's gift store in downtown Lansing, Michigan during a question and answer session at Schuler Books in Okemos, MI. Price discusses her merchandising and customer philosophy, her eye for art and talent, her long friendship and professional relationship with modernist designer George Nelson and their collaborative effort to create a classy, unique environment in her store. She also describes learning the business from her father and then making it her own, selecting merchandise for quality, cost and design and training her sales staff to help select exactly the right piece for a customer. Price is interviewed by Sandra Seaton, recent author of an article on Price in "Modernism" mnagazine and the MSU College of Law Writer in Residence.
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- In Collections
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G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date Published
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2011-10-25
- Interviewees
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Price, Betty, 1913-2013
- Interviewers
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Seaton, Sandra
- Recordist
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Vincent Voice Library
- Subjects
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Price, Betty, 1913-2013
Nelson, George, 1908-1986
Price, Betty
Customer services
Friendship
Gift shops
Women merchants
Michigan
Michigan--Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:55:53
- Venue Note
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Recorded at Schuler Books in Okemos, MI, by the Vincent Voice Library, Oct. 25, 2011.
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 16805
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b9081396
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