Word: discounter
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...halt two-for-one drink specials and increase alcohol-free social options. Students, of course, will complain (at Wisconsin the chancellor is sometimes called the "booze cop"). And so might townspeople: why can?t a responsible drinker enjoy a beer or two at the football game, or get a discount for stopping by at happy hour? That's what happens when you craft policy to deal with the worst offenders. The innocents have to sacrifice. If these changes work (the jury is still out), it will be hard to argue that such sacrifices aren't worth...
...that it?s all roses out there. Clearly the job "churning" that?s keeping unemployment contained is leaving some people making less than they did before - discount chains like Wal-Mart and JC Penney?s aren?t seeing their same-store sales go up because people are getting raises. If the unemployment picture isn?t yet bleak enough to push consumers over the psychological brink into complete shopping withdrawal, it?s still bad enough to keep them watching their wallets...
...number is a little harder to peg, given that we?re still reading conflicting accounts of whether that was inflation or deflation looming in the shadows of last week?s PPI. The Consumer Price Index, of course, is the inflation number we can spot at the mall, and with discount wars festering across the retail scape, it?s hard to imagine July prices doing anything levitationary - at least not enough to scare Greenspan into cutting out the rate cuts August...
...Bargain World Discount Store 8 West 125th Street (Bet. Fifth and Lenox Avenues...
Southwest has sued Orbitz for allegedly publishing inaccurate fare and flight data that make the nation's most successful discount airline look expensive and inconvenient. Katz denies the charges. "Orbitz should not exist at all," says Debby Ackerman, general counsel for Southwest...