Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COSTLIER COFFEE is in store, caused by U.S. competition for quality South American beans, which are in short supply due to rain damage. Most vacuum-packed brands will soon retail for $1.10 per lb., v. the $1.40 record set as a result of market manipulation in 1954. Instant coffee will go up about...
Despite the drop in auto sales, there was no lessening of overall buying, since employment (66 million) and paychecks are at a peak. Retail sales are 3% above last year, and Philip M. Talbott, president of the National Retail Dry Goods Association (8,000 department and specialty stores), said that he expects this year's sales to break last year's record...
...monsters that keep big-city skyscrapers habitable, every size and shape of mechanical conditioner will roll out in record quantities this year. The top-heavy inventories of window units that plagued the industry for the past two years have been cleared out, and manufacturers expect retail sales of all types to be $3.2 billion in 1956, up a cool 10% from last year's record $2.9 billion (see chart...
More than anything else, what finally made up FRB's mind was the spring flood of optimism, cheering reports of first-quarter earnings (see below), the big expansion plans of U.S. businessmen, the big spending plans of the U.S. consumer. Retail trade for March, said the Commerce Department, climbed 2% over February and 4% above March of last year. After a survey of economists and businessmen, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce predicted that consumer incomes will go up 3% to 5% this year, and that all of this $8 billion to $14 billion will be spent...
...College retail stores such as the Coop can expect business increases of up to 400 percent in the next 15 years, Stanley F. Teele, Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration and member of the Coop's Board of Directors, estimated Wednesday...