A little more than a week after Christmas and it seems like the whole world is on sale. Everywhere I go the discounters are discounting and the high end retailers are running huge sales. Wandering through Nordstoms in the Southpark Mall in Charlotte, this is definitely true. They have  been in the Private Brand business for many years and the list of their brands is pretty long, but I kept running into their banner brand, and it seems that even they play in a few of the traditional packaged goods (coffee) products while focusing on the apparel basics, great men’s shirts, women’s panty hose etc.