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...holly jolly Christmas. The annual end-of-year shopping orgy can account for as much as 40% of a retailer's annual sales, but most of the tallying so far has left the big stores crying "Bah, humbug." And the bad news kicked in even earlier. British supermarket chain J Sainsbury last week said its same-store sales, excluding gasoline, fell 1.2% in the third quarter. Two months earlier, the company had declared a $72.5 million pretax loss for the first half - the first loss in its 135-year history. One of its food-and-retail competitors, Marks & Spencer, earlier...
...Print A worker at British book chain Waterstone's became the first in the U.K. to be fired for writing a personal weblog. Joe Gordon - who lampooned his "evil boss" online - will reportedly appeal...
...claim 10% of the entire food universe within a decade. "I don't think natural and organic food is a fad. It's a way of life," says Simon, a fast-talking native of Nova Scotia, Canada, who started his career in the U.S. by expanding H??agen-Dazs' chain of ice cream shops in the 1980s. "And no major food company is built for the 21st century...
...Bliss Spa celebrates its partnership with the W Hotel chain with a new location, bliss49, in New York City's W Hotel at 49th Street and Lexington Avenue. It opened last month, and three more spas are set to open in 2005 in W Hotels in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. The New York spa, which features a manicure-pedicure lounge, a shaving station, and women's and men's locker rooms with saunas and aromatherapy-infused steam rooms, will also offer unique treatments like Bliss's Carrot & Sesame Body Buff and Triple Oxygen facial. But the biggest bonus...
...your sanity intact, here's a solution. Two cutting-edge spas offer new services geared to clients who haven't had the wherewithal to book months in advance - and in one case, there are even free products in the mix. Bliss Spa celebrates its partnership with the W Hotel chain with a new location, Bliss49, in New York City's W Hotel at 49th Street and Lexington Avenue. It opened last month, and three more spas are set to open in 2005 in W Hotels in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. The New York spa, which features a manicure...