Word: retail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Retail-sales analysts predict that the spartan stores will continue expanding, as consumers look for new ways to beat inflation. Says Walter Loeb, food and retail analyst with New York's Morgan Stanley: "We have seen waves of warehouse stores before. A & P unsuccessfully tried it a few years ago. But now they are doing better and selling fresh produce, some dairy products and meat...
Next, there were plans for 120,000 square feet of retail space, along with a hotel, office and housing complex. Community opponents yelled about traffic and pollution, so the retail section of the complex was trimmed to under 100,000 square feet...
...neighbors won a drastic reduction-to a maximum of 40,000 square feet-in the amount of retail space in the complex. Worried that the store and shops would attract the most cars, community opponents were willing to allow increases in the amount of housing and office space to offset the retail reductions...
...faced abnormally high costs for imports that had been negotiated by the Tolbert government. The council broke some of these contracts, but has failed to renegotiate a long-term oil-shipment deal that costs the nation 30% more than the current going rate. The country's foreign-dominated retail trade, meanwhile, has been crippled by a flight of capital and a severe credit shortage...
...think the consumer is in for a little bit of a jolt when he sees the retail price increases this fall. But we've got to start to get some of the $80 billion investment back...