Word: retail
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...generations of elegant travelers, Louis Vuitton has been the last word in luxury luggage. Marlene Dietrich once crammed 23 trunks bearing Vuitton's famous initials into her limousine before a trip. Now Paris-based Vuitton, whose retail prices range from $235 for a duffel bag to $1,225 for a hard-frame suitcase, has decided to unlock itself and let in public owners. In a unique double offering, the 130-year-old company (1983 sales: $100 million) listed its stock on the Paris Bourse last week, and plans to sell 258,000 common shares on the U.S. over...
...which students can now obtain the much-touted Macintosh, listed at $2400, for about $1400. And just last month came news of a deal with the Digital Equipment Corporation, which will allow students to purchase various of the firm's models for up to 40 percent off the standard retail price...
...landed" cost of the clothes, which covers all the freight, customs and handling charges. Lest any aspiring store owner shrink from such an investment, it should be recalled that each store marks up these imported garments between three and 3½ times its first cost. That's retail to you, Jack, and perhaps now it comes a little clearer how stores can make a profit even on half-price sales...
...kind used in most West European countries. A VAT is a tax levied on goods at each point of the production and distribution chain according to the value added at that stage. A tax on refrigerators, for example, would be collected from the manufacturer, the wholesale distributor and the retail appliance dealer. Ultimately, of course, consumers would pay the tax in the form of higher prices...
About 7,000 stores in the U.S. sell applications software. Softsel, the largest distributor to retail stores, adds about 200 new products a month to its catalogue, which already includes nearly 3,000 titles. Says Chairman David Wagman: "The demand is colossal." Anyone who visits a computer store, looks in a catalogue or picks up one of the many computer magazines is confronted by a stunning but often confusing array of products. Some of the newest titles...