Word: retail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grains, and, by Block's perhaps overly optimistic estimate, could save as much as $5 billion between now and fiscal 1985 in price-support payments and storage fees, which totaled $12 billion in the past fiscal year. Block also believes the plan would have a negligible effect on retail food prices...
Even if Christmas sales do perk up during the next two weeks, most economists expect fourth-quarter retail sales-including automobiles, appliances and general merchandise-to be only slightly ahead of last year's fourth quarter, after adjustment for inflation. November's sales, reported last week, rose by an inflation-adjusted 2% above last year, thanks largely to the recent pickup in auto sales sparked by carmakers' cut-rate financing. The sluggishness in spending puzzles some economists, who see a number of reasons why people should be buying...
...billion last year. As late as last summer it still held about 80% of the world market, and in doing so had got a lock on an enormously profitable business in which cartridges that cost only about $6 to manufacture can usually be sold for a retail price...
Under the bill, larger retail stores will be banned from opening before noon, but drug-stores and small convenience stores, which presently can open all day Sunday, can continue...
...Legislature allowed retail sales on the four Sundays between Thanksgiving and Christmas...