Word: retail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of a deal with the Apple Company in January, Harvard students, faculty, and associates can acquire the new Macintosh personal computer for about $1450--about $1000 less than standard retail value...
Construction crews may soon begin tearing down the Gulf Oil Station at the intersection of John F. Kennedy and Eliot Streets to make way for a new parking garage and retail complex...
Plans for the $8-10 million complex tentatively call for 300 to 350 public parking spaces and about 15,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor, Vincent J. Panico, one of 13 investors in the project, said yesterday...
...direct-sales force. The accounting firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. has ordered 3,500 Macintoshes for use in its 200 offices around the country. Later this month Businessland, a computer distributor that had previously concentrated on IBM machines, will add Mac to its product line. Two other national retail chains, ComputerLand and Sears, are reported to be eyeing the new Apple...
Still, the first-quarter surge is viewed as an aberration. In part, it was fueled by high levels of construction and retail sales in January, caused by extremely cold weather in December that pushed some of the usual business from that month into the next. Government economists also note that automotive assembly plants have advanced production from late spring into the first quarter in anticipation of shutdowns for new-model retooling. In addition, farmers got a one-shot boost during the quarter from the payment-in-kind program, which will not be repeated. Economists generally expect that the first quarter...