Word: marte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second damning clue came to me one day as I was walking through a local K-Mart and came face to face with Father Christmas sitting on a hideous, gaudy throne, and holding two squalling children in headlocks as they had their pictures taken. I accosted him and demanded to know what he was doing wasting his time in a second-rate retail store in Roanoke, Va., with Christmas so close at hand. "Second-rate Santas have to bring in the dough somehow," was all he could manage...
...looks like a partridge shooter, though that is the recreation for many men of Maine in this season. What was once practical outdoor wear has become fashion clothing. A chamois shirt looks good on Saturday morning in Westport, Conn. The hunter from Millinocket probably gets his shirt at K mart...
...think it would be a hindrance if people knew us as college students," Matz said. "They would be prejudiced against us--we are not the K-Mart of coupon brokering...
...gray market offers considerable bargains for the wary consumer and has grabbed about a $5.5 billion chunk of the nation's retail trade. This includes $ an estimated 30% of high-quality camera sales. These goods are sold across the country by such giant chains as K mart and Montgomery Ward, as well as by local specialty outlets. Some stores carry both gray-market products and normally discounted goods...
Enter the gray marketers. They buy their products in Europe, Asia and elsewhere instead of getting them from authorized U.S. distributors. K mart last year spent about $100 million on gray-market imports, including Swiss- made Accutron watches that it sells for less than $100, or about half the manufacturer's suggested price. Says Robert Stevenson, K mart vice president: "There is no reason to pay unreasonable prices to the manufacturer's U.S. distributor when you can obtain exactly the same products at lower cost overseas." Importers have even invaded the market for heavy machinery. Caterpillar excavators imported from France...