Never mind politics

More than 400 people were lining up this morning to get into the new Nordstrom Rack at Laguna Hills Mall. As reported by the OC Register's Hang Nguyen, they were wrapped around the building, into the parking lot, and onto the sidewalk behind the building. One guy got there at 3:30 in the morning. One reason for the big turnout was a contest in which the winner gets 90 seconds to grab up to $1,000 worth of goods. Not to make too big a point of this, but August same-store sales at the Nordstrom discount arm rose 7.6 percent. At the regular Nordstrom locations, same-store sales fell 12.5 percent.