Word: retailer
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...finds. Says Josephson: "An Egyptian farmer will not report an archaeological find for fear his fields will be confiscated. So he either throws the object away or sells it to a cousin in Cairo." Though a peasant who finds an artifact makes a small fraction of its retail value -- one contraband Cambodian Buddha head on sale in Hong Kong recently carried a $37,000 price tag -- it is better than nothing...
...briefcase that conceals a tiny video camera? How about a mini tape recorder that has a pinhead microphone disguised as a tie tack? You don't have to buy this stuff in a back alley. Just head over to your local CCS Counter Spy Shop, a chain with retail outlets in New York City, Houston, Miami and Washington that specializes in high-tech snooping gear. According to Tom Felice, sales manager for the New York City store, clandestine recording devices are the biggest sellers. "The more discreet they are, the more popular," he says. "There are a lot of paranoid...
Counter Spy is not alone. Other big electronics retail chains and smaller mail-order outfits are also bringing elite snooping into the mass market. New Jersey-based Edmund Scientific sells an electronic microphone for $625 that it claims can "pull in voices up to three-quarters of a mile away." Life Force Technologies in Colorado sells a briefcase with a hidden tape recorder for $1,195. "Invading someone's privacy has become as easy as walking into your local electronics store," complains Morton Bromfield, executive director of the American Privacy Foundation, based in Wellesley, Mass...
Armani is only the latest designer to enter a clothing market that is rapidly coming to realize that nobody wants to spend real money on clothes these days. U.S. retail sales are depressed, and Christmas sales will probably be flat -- at best. The picture looks no prettier in Europe. In fashion- conscious Italy, for example, apparel sales are expected to decline 12% in 1991. The one striking exception seems to prove the rule: in the U.S., sales at the Gap, purveyor of $19 cotton turtlenecks and $28.50 sweat pants, are running 30% above last year...
...bridge market in womens wear alone totals about $1 billion at retail, more than twice what it was just three years ago. Predictably, department stores are devoting more space to second collections. At the new Manhattan outpost of Galeries Lafayette, the French department-store chain, the shelves are stocked with French designers' second collections as well as more moderately priced labels such as Chantal Thomass and Lolita Lempicka. Bloomingdale's senior vice president Kal Ruttenstein reports that sales of the store's bridge lines are running 28% ahead of last year. Debt-laden retailers keenly appreciate that markdowns on bridge...