Of all the great retailers in the industry, J. Crew would definitely have to be my favorite (and not just because of Michelle Obama's shared love of the store).
One of the main reasons I love J. Crew is the way the store is laid out. The dresses & sweaters are always hanging up & the pants & tees are always folded on the table. I love the organization & it makes it so much easier to find what you are looking for. If I go into a store & I have to furiously search to find what I am looking for, I will probably end up walking out without purchasing anything.
J. Crew is also very good at suckering in their customers into buying more by matching more products with the displayed objects. For example, once I went in there to buy a dress & came out with two scarves, a sweater & flats that they had matching with the dress. That has to be a great help to the sales of each J.Crew store, seeing that each store has a different layout & picks different accessories to go with their outfits.
Another great asset to the store is the quality of their clothes. I have never bought a piece of clothing from there that I was not completely satisfied with. A lot of retailers clothes tend to loose their shape or are made really thin so they get holes really easily. I have found that all of the clothes at J. Crew are made exceptionally well and last a long time.
The clothes there are also really classy, which is a big thing to me. Their styles work well with any occasion, and the outfits are guaranteed to look well put together. I love that the clothes I purchase there can be worn to class, church, job interviews, dinner, anything really.
J. Crew also has exceptional service for their costumers. The staff is always more than willing to help you put together an outfit or choose the right fit of jeans for your body type. The prices tend to be a little much, but I think that if you are getting better service & better value of clothing the money is not an issue. I would rather spend a lot of money on one shirt than buy three & have holes in two of them & another have completely lost it's shape.
All in all, J. Crew is one of the best retailers out in the industry. Everything about the store is top notch and they can make me spend $500 dollars a visit, so I think they are doing their job pretty well.
