Word: retail
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...adds that depending on the product's success in the metropolitan area, the chain may expand further into other areas of the state. In addition, Gainsborough adds. Cornpopper officials are looking to go beyond the current bounds of the retail outlets and market the various popcorn flavors in supermarkets and liquor stores, supplementing whatever out-of-shop sales might develop from the mail-order business already offered through the chain's stores...
...Federal Reserve decides that the money supply is growing too fast and slams on the brakes, it could halt the young recovery, which has been under way only since the beginning of the year. In some ways, that economic upturn is stronger than anticipated. Retail sales in May rose 2.1%, their strongest rise in months. But the recovery's true breadth and depth are as yet unshaped. Unemployment is down, but only slightly, to 10.1% of the U.S. labor force, and the 10.1% of the U.S. labor force, and the layoffs...
...addition to its rapid growth, the personal-computer software industry lures both big and small companies because of its huge profit margins. Programs that cost only $5 or $10 to make can sell at retail for up to $700 or more. The most expensive is believed to be Micro-scan II, a stock-analysis program that costs $6,250 for a year's subscription, which includes periodic market updating...
Called the Aroma Disc system, the new machine is expected to retail for $20. Upscale versions, priced as high as $125, will include a choice of ceramic camouflage (cats, clowns and art deco birds) designed by Giorgio Sant'Angelo. To improve the smell of the surroundings, one inserts a "fragrance record" into the machine. The company will not divulge its proprietary technology, but the scent is released when the oil-filled discs are warmed slightly in the machine. The discs will come in both long-playing versions that put out the same odor for five hours (price...
...whites, the anti-assimilationist theory has become accepted practice: Miami's youth can take twelve years of bilingual public schooling with no pretense made that the program is transitional toward anything. The potential for separatism is greater in Los Angeles. Philip Hawley, president of the Carter Hawley Hale retail store chain, cautions: "This is the only area in the U.S. that over the next 50 years could have a polarization into two distinct cultures, of the kind that brought about the Quebec situation in Canada." Professor Rodolfo Acuña of California State University at Northridge concurs. Says...