Word: retail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machines that are usually sold to small businesses, the company has carved out a market niche largely overlooked by other competitors. Sales have zoomed from $404,000 in 1977 to $25 million last year, and more than 12,000 Vector Graphic systems have been installed around the country at retail prices ranging from...
...Coop management, then, the store's 100th anniversary should be occasion not for placid celebration--for profits alone are nothing to celebrate--but instead for looking both back at the Coop's past and ahead to its future. The past should remind them of the forgotten ideals of the retail cooperative--fair prices, compassionate treatment of workers, and cooperation with its membership. The future, we hope, will allow the Coop to realize those ideals better than it has in recent years...
...signs that had given hope for an early recovery from recession have disappeared. The Government initially reported small rises in retail sales and in the index of leading indicators for December. Rechecking the figures, it now finds that it was wrong. Both went down in December...
...worldwide alert of U.S. military forces; the plight of an Egyptian army trapped in the desert and facing starvation; and Kissinger's now renowned "shuttle diplomacy, "which sometimes involved such intense haggling over the most minute details that he was reminded of nothing so much as "retail rug-merchanting...
...worn with a jacket and a reversible vest for an approximation of the three-piece look. Since maternity customers are often older, with jobs of their own and a certain amount of flexible income, they can manage triple-figure price tags with a minimum of fuss. Indeed, retail prices of maternity clothes have more than doubled in the past three years in great part because, as Lillian Tomek of Bloomingdale's says, "women demand the same kind of quality that they have been wearing. Maternity was always budget. Ten years ago, you couldn't get anything but polyester...