Many of us got a hit of nostalgia this week when we heard that the discount department store Loehmann’s is reopening, at least as a popup shop, on Long Island.

In the metro NYC area of my childhood, Loehmann’s and its competitor Syms were popular with the Jewish-mother demographic until the chains went out of business in the 2010s.

While Loehmann’s itself didn’t have a marketing slogan, Syms had a slogan that........

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