Word: retail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failures are concentrated in retail trade. Explains Stephen Sahlein, contributing editor of the Investment/U.S.A. newsletter: "U.S. investments generally pay off when the foreign company brings in technical expertise and leaves the marketing to Americans. The investments that did not work were aimed directly at the American consumer." Foreign businessmen are unaccustomed to the ethnic diversity in the U.S., where blacks, Hispanics and Chinese are as ubiquitous as the Irish and Italians. Overseas investors are often unprepared for the competitiveness of the American market, in which promotion and image are crucial. European companies have acquired 21 major U.S. retailers since...
...outlets can develop the pictures faster because of their new, on-site equipment. Most retail processors send film to a central lab, and it may take up to a week to get the pictures back. Leading the way into one-stop photo processing is California-based Fromex One Hour Photo Systems. The new fast picture service is a threat to established film processors like Fotomat, which has 3,670 locations around the U.S. and offers two-day service, and to instant-camera makers like Polaroid as well. Founded just 20 months ago, Fromex now has 62 shops either open...
...Britain and France. Both distribute slick omnibus arms compendia, Britain every year since 1969, France biannually since 1967, that the world's wish-listing generals and defense ministers can flip through with the delight of boys at Christmas time. There are no order forms or suggested retail prices. But whether they prefer the grand, gilded and clothbound British Defence Equipment Catalogue in three volumes (5,000 printed, $150 per set) or France's more workaday, four-volume paperback catalogue (6,000 printed, free), arsenal shoppers can find everything they need to build the best army that money...
...city planning board this summer formally approved a $60-million design for a condominium-retail-office-hotel complex on Parcel 1B which would generate only half as much additional traffic as had been predicted earlier...
...company's once-sickly retailing operation has rebounded and shaken off two years of declining profits. Retail sales in the five weeks ending Oct. 3 were up 9.3% over last year. But with little prospect for dramatic new growth in merchandising, Telling decided it was time to move decisively into financial services...