Word: retailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, if you have to ask, it's because the rich are back to being different. Following a brief, unsatisfying fling with modesty in the early 1990s, they've renewed their lust for luxe and are making upscale stores the brightest spot on the dowdy U.S. retail scene...
That is not to say that we have never had a problem or disagreement with a customer--such is the reality in every retail business. In fact, there was a disagreement involving Mr. Lat and a $2 late fee for a movie that he rented...
...that 1996 Honda Accord you've been eyeing? Or what kind of gasoline mileage it gets? Just log onto Edmund Publications http:www.enews.com/magazines/edmunds) which gives the invoice price of an LX sedan with standard features and antilock brakes as $17,531, in contrast to/ a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $19,840. The same listing notes that the midsize auto with automatic transmission gets a thrifty 23 m.p.g. in city driving and 31 m.p.g. on the open road...
DETROIT STRIKES BACK Chrysler has become the most aggressive U.S. automaker in putting these retailing ideas to work. The company angered many of its dealers by giving CarMax a franchise to sell new Chryslers, Plymouths and Jeep Eagles in Norcross, Georgia, beginning next month. Chrysler is also testing a new-car dealership called MidPark Jeep-Eagle in Dallas, where the fixed-price vehicles carry discounts of $1,800 to $2,000 below the manufacturer's suggested retail price. "People appreciate a low-pressure place that offers a fair price," says MidPark co-owner Jim DeWolfe. That spreading realization could soon...
...oohs and ahs from the audience. Photos of collections are being uploaded into the World Wide Web just hours after shows end (one site is First View: http://www.firstview.com) As a result, cheap knockoff artists can get an even quicker head start on designers in the race to retail stores--a race Paris is already losing. "This cannot continue," declares Marie-Louise de Clermont Tonnerre of Chanel. "We will do everything we must to protect our creations." The houses recently filed a lawsuit to ban uploads and seek jail time for offenders, arguing that footage and photos of their lines...