Nordstrom to hire up to 370 at two new St. Louis stores
St. Louis Business Journal
June 11, 2010
by Kelsey Volkmann
Nordstrom is hiring 70 workers for Missouri's first Nordstrom Rack store, which is scheduled to open in September in St. Louis.
The Seattle-based department store chain also plans to hire another up to 300 workers for a full-line department store slated to open at the Saint Louis Galleria in September 2011, said Colin Johnson, a company spokesman.
"It may sound simple but we really believe in hiring genuinely nice people," Johnson said. "The best training is the time spent on the floor face-to-face with a customer trying to find a solution for them. There's one rule for employees: Use good judgment in all situations."
Tarlton Corp., a St. Louis-based general contracting and construction management firm, began construction of the 34,000-square-foot Nordstrom Rack at Brentwood Square in April. Nordstrom Rack is the company's off-price retail division and carries merchandise from Nordstrom stores and Nordstrom.com at 50 percent to 60 percent off original prices.
Tarlton also has been hired to manage construction of the regular Nordstrom store at the Galleria. Nordstrom pushed back the opening date for the full-line store from 2010 to 2011 due to the recession and a drop in consumer spending.
Tarlton built the first Nordstrom store in Missouri, the Nordstrom West County Center store, which opened in Des Peres in 2002.
