 Alan Kane, the executive in charge of their repositioning had some good ideas but they were too little and too late to save the chain.The stores below that Kane opened are still operated as Lord & Taylor locations, or are occupied by the chains that bought them, while the three that he inherited are all gone except for Westfield.During the course of the 1970s and 1980s, the chain attempted to reach out to a broader shopper demographic with mixed results.