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...this a newly minted version of the classic Macy's vs. Gimbel's rivalry? "It's absolutely a battle," says Steven Keith Platt of the Platt Retail Institute, an industry think tank in Hindale, Ill. "They're both going after the same market--the female. She controls the purse strings." Both chains dismiss the notion of a retail slugfest. But it is clear that each chain is borrowing a page from the other's business model. For example, 22 of the 25 stores that Penney opened in the third quarter were situated in very Kohl's-like locales, a different...
...reasons for keeping Christ out of store windows during this time of year are economic, however, they might be ill-reasoned. When members of one religion (Christianity) are disproportionately more focused on buying gifts this month than the rest of the population, and when members of that religion make up an overwhelming majority of the population of the U.S. (just under 80 percent), pandering to purchasers who happen to believe that the son of God was born in a manger in the modern West Bank on Dec. 25 some 2,000 years ago seems like a fairly practical business decision...
...least one famous Russian oligarch with the many secrets he was collecting--or sell them to newspapers. Yegor Gaidar, a Prime Minister in the early 1990s and now an occasional critic of Putin's, came to the President's assistance last week when describing how he had fallen violently ill from an apparent poisoning in Dublin on the day Litvinenko died. Writing in the Financial Times, Gaidar concluded "that some obvious or hidden adversaries of the Russian authorities stand behind the scenes of this event, those who are interested in further radical deterioration of relations between Russia and the West...
Where does that leave the quintessential Starbucks experience--lounging around a café, sipping a French roast, surfing the Web? Ready for an upgrade of its own. Walk into the Northbrook, Ill., store, and you will see where Starbucks is headed. Bookcases line one wall, overflowing with espresso makers, French presses, coffee beans, thermoses and mugs. Next to a display case of food is a shelf full of CDs and DVDs. The space devoted to preparing drinks has been reduced by a quarter and re-engineered to conserve movement and space. Vertical shelves set into the wall help keep workers...
BROOKLYN, N.Y.—Brad Unger entered Saturday’s game against Long Island University (LIU) feeling a bit under the weather. But by halftime it was his opponents who were feeling ill...