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MacDonald added the third goal of the period when he took an outlet pass from McEvoy, dashed down the right side of the ice, then streaked across the middle and just before reaching the board flung a shot past Tiger goalie Dave Marotta (34 saves...
While many small, independent shops are still thriving because consumer demand continues to grow, the large national chains have started to grab most of the new business. National Video of Portland, Ore., which opened its first outlet in 1981, has 776 franchises in the U.S. and opens an average of 15 new shops every month. The convenience-store chain 7-Eleven plans to offer its MovieQuik rental club, which has no membership fee, in 7,000 of its 7,636 outlets by the end of the year. MovieQuik's feature attraction is speediness; because each member's account data...
...about wiring, he avoided a charge last week. Rasheed is the Miami shopkeeper who became the focus of nationwide publicity last month after a booby trap in his store killed a would-be robber. He claimed that he thought his trap -- a pair of metal grates attached to an outlet by an extension cord -- would merely jolt intruders, not execute them. "I don't know the first thing about electrical wiring," Rasheed insists...
...Ghermezian approach is indisputably successful. Sales revenues for the complex last year totaled $560 million. That take is the equivalent of $280 per sq. ft. of retail space, which is twice the rate of a typical U.S. retail outlet...
Shrewd negotiating tactics are a familiar part of the Ghermezian success story. The family gained a North American toehold when Patriarch Jacob Ghermezian, now 86, moved to Montreal from Tehran in 1959. The family began selling Oriental rugs door to door, then opened a Montreal retail outlet, which within five years blossomed into a chain of 17 stores. The leap to real estate came in the 1960s, when the Ghermezians began snapping up land in Edmonton for as little as $100 an acre while the oil boom got under way and later sold some of the property...