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...mail order industry ... caters to every conceivable need of the American buyer except finding parking space, spending hours to find the objects he seeks and quite possibly dealing with surly salesclerks in jampacked retail stores. Those catalogues, offering everything from $29 anoraks to $4 Zippo lighters, have become a major factor in the U.S. economy. As subtly and sneakily as a falling nightgown strap from the Victoria's Secret lingerie catalogue, they have exerted a refreshing influence on American consumers and their style. More than 5 billion of those catalogues will be mailed in 1982 ... The average American household receives...
...does as much as half of its business in the Christmas season. Denmark's Lego says it expects to lose about 3250 million this year as falling sales and prices force it to cut back production. At London megastore Hamleys, Bratz dolls and some electronic games are moving, but buyer Sue Porritt says the market overall "is looking tough." But not all are gloomy. Merchandise featuring jumping mouse Diddl is leaping off the shelves in France and Italy as well as its native Germany, even though the firm behind it, Depesche, does no advertising. And sales at Germany's Playmobil...
...January, the Boston Globe reported that the store had planned to close in the last week of January but was staying open temporarily until a buyer was found...
...long scarves, blazers for guys and girls and lady-like cardigans, to name a few—are the result of top-down decisions by national retailers, not local creativity. Both Jasmine Sola and Urban Outfitters rely on frequent shipments of goods purchased by a national or regional buyer; the outfit hanging in Urban’s windows today could be the same outfit hanging in a window in San Diego...
...vessel, of a certain size, length and capacity, while at other times it's only the "guts"?the cargo. "When the big boss only wants the skin, we'll try to find a vessel with no cargo, but if he wants just the guts, we'll find another buyer for the ship." Nurdin regards the raiders who actually take over the ship as little more than thugs. "We aren't pirates," he insists. "We're professionals...