Word: retail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coonskin cap on the TV show Davy Crockett, have the long-tailed hats been so popular. Manhattan-based Jack Seifter and Sons, the largest U.S. manufacturer of the caps, has seen sales double in the past several months. During 1988 the company sold 500 of the authentic caps (retail price: $100) and 10,000 versions made with fake fur or rabbit pelt and a real ringtail...
Books will be sold at 60 percent of the retail price, with 50 percent being returned to the sellers, and the other 10 percent going to PBH, Lawrence said. Most second-hand bookstores pay sellers about 25 percent of the retail price...
...most firms that pay the minimum wage are not engaged in international competition. Almost two-thirds of minimum wage recipients work in retail or personal and domestic services. Less than 8 percent work in manufacturing...
Rarely do trade unions go on strike to help overseas brethren. But among some Belgian supermarket employees, solidarity now includes U.S. workers as well. For the past month, members of a Belgian retail-employees union have struck stores owned by the Delhaize-Le Lion retailing giant...
...study found that nearly two-thirds of city retail stores have not posted "no smoking" signs, as required...