Word: retail
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...unveiling, last December, of the Base Village restaurant and retail complex added an extra dimension to the popular Snowmass ski area near Aspen, Colo. The development now expands with the addition of the swish Viceroy Snowmass hotel...
That doesn't mean it's impossible to do well in an industry with oodles of competition - just that if you're going to play that game, you'd better know your customer pretty well. Consider retail. The stores that make the list are all super-focused on what they sell. Chico's is for comfortable women's clothing. Gymboree is to dress your kids. Jos. A. Bank Clothiers is for men's suits and dress shirts. And PetMed Express is to order your dog's prescription online. Department stores, big-box discounters and generalist web sites - retailers that...
...Last year was the worst Christmas in 40 years and we're tracking below that right now," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a retail consulting and investment banking firm.. "The whole [holiday season] will be determined by the last two days before Christmas...
...spread store-wide as they were last year. "We're definitely expecting to see a lot of promotions in the days before Christmas, but we are not likely to see the blanket discounts and markdowns that we saw a year ago," says Ellen Davis, a spokesperson for the National Retail Federation. "You probably won't walk into a store and see signs for 60%, 70% or 80% off everything."See pictures of retailers which have gone out of business...
Nevertheless, many shoppers have been procrastinating in the hopes of scoring lalst-minute gifts at bargain-basement prices. As of mid-December, the average consumer had completed only 46.7% of their holiday shopping, according to a survey conducted by BIGresearch for the National Retail Federation. This was down considerably from the 54% who had finished their gift-buying at the same time in 2005 through 2007, says Kathy Grannis, a spokesman for the NRF. According to the survey, about 42 million people, or 19.1%, had not even started their shopping as of Dec. 16 while only 8.6% had finished...