Word: retail
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...leading importers of Rolls-Royces and caviar. The unofficial estimate is that 6 million Italian workers, one-third of the labor force, are employed in the underground economy. The latest attempt at a crackdown: a law to make cash registers compulsory in the 800,000 (out of 1.2 million) retail stores that now keep their money in a drawer...
...December, the Massachusetts Legislature voted to repeal the statutes prohibiting retail sales on Sundays, the outgrowth of a Massachusetts tradition as old as the Pilgrims. The new law--which formally goes into effect Sunday--affects most retail establishments except for liquor stores...
...that may render their expensive turntables and library of LPs as out of date as Edison's first talking machine. This month two major manufacturers, Sony and Magnavox, are introducing a limited number of digital record players in audio and department stores across the U.S. The machines, which retail for $800 to $1,000, use a laser beam instead of a conventional tone arm and stylus to play compact discs, or CDs, that are only 4.7 in. in diameter and will sell for about $17. Says Dan Davis, vice president of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers: "There...
Both groups vocally protested the original plans to build a massive retail and hotel complex on Parcel lb. The developer subsequently agreed to change his plans, and work on the site began earlier this year...
...economy in Colbert beat his campaign there, that people in the area really had not had a change of heart. Unemployment in Colbert County stood at 20.9% at the beginning of last year and had fallen to 17.3% toward the end, much of the drop attributable to alcohol. The retail-sales growth rate in Colbert County for the first nine months of 1982, the latest available figure, nearly doubled the 1.81% growth rate of the state, while Lauderdale County next door fell to less than half the state average...