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...before the Hadera attack, a political analyst in the Israel daily Haaretz had set the scenario: "There was no need for a degree in political strategy to make an educated guess yesterday about how this week would go," wrote Amos Harel. "From the first reports about the assassination of Tul Karm's Raed Karmi, any Israeli or Palestinian alumnus of the past 15 months could come up with an accurate prognosis of what would happen: Revenge by Karmi's Fatah colleagues in the West Bank, and a sharp rise in the number of shooting incidents in the West Bank, particularly...
...better part of a decade reorganizing itself. The latest--and maybe the last--effort is being led by Charles Conaway, 41, whom the company plucked from drugstore chain CVS 18 months ago. Late last week the company's stock was pummeled, dropping 14%, to $4.71, after Prudential Securities retailing analyst Wayne Hood suggested in a report that bankruptcy would not be a bad move for K Mart. A Chapter 11 filing would allow the company to walk away more easily from the leases of underperforming stores and warehouses and move ahead with construction of new facilities in more promising locations...
...onslaught: he refused to interrupt his vacation to respond to Hood's salvo. Said K Mart spokeswoman Lori McTavish: "We're confident we have enough resources and enough lines of credit to get through. We're implementing a major change in the company's operations and culture." Other analysts were surprised only by the reaction to Hood's report, which recommended that investors sell the stock. They did, driving it to a 30-year low of $3.89 before it recovered. "This report is not new news. Where was everyone over the last year?" asked Shelly Hale, an analyst with Bank...
...customers didn't show up at K Mart's stores. At the same time, K Mart cut prices on 38,000 items. Consumers didn't catch on fast enough, but Wal-Mart sure did, and it fired back with a vengeance. "Look at what this CEO has done!" says analyst Hale. "He's tried to go up against Wal-Mart by lowering prices, and it just didn't work because you can never just fight Wal-Mart on price." Why not? Wal-Mart is better at squeezing suppliers for better terms, and it has a lower overhead. Result...
...each new customer using e-mail and only $66 using direct mail. But customers are more receptive to firms they already do business with. Inducing an existing customer to make a new purchase costs $6 using e-mail, vs. $18 for direct mail. Says Jared Blank, a digital-commerce analyst at Jupiter: "They're good for different things...