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Sarah Johnson, the founder of consultancy Flourish Retail, a former head of buying and merchandising for Asos China, said the firm could pay suppliers more, which would give them more leeway to pay workers.

“To shoehorn anything into tiny Disneyland is really hard,” Irvine says, adding, “a lot of people in merchandising would have preferred it was bigger.”

So this merchandising influx feels almost like the natural endgame for this Broadway property.

“Some of these events were just so clearly partisan in a way that it often did not seem like a distinct sort of thing — even down to campaign merchandising.”

The Swiss national joined Harrods in 1995 and was appointed to the board as chief retail and merchandising officer in 1996.