Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What they're all worked up about is the U.S. sports-drink market, a billion- dollar retail segment that has been growing about 10% annually. It will take world-class contenders like these to unseat the defending champion, Quaker Oats Co.'s Gatorade, which accounts for some 90% of nationwide sales. , Like Kleenex in the tissue market and Xerox among copiers, Gatorade has become the generic word for sports drinks...
...being hanged, by being shot by a firing squad, by inhaling cyanide gas, by electrocution or -- the newest method and a dog's death in more ways than one -- by being administered poison through an intravenous drip. Unlike at the mall, though, there isn't much choice at the retail level. Only Utah (shooting or hanging) and Idaho (lethal injection or firing squad) offer the customer a limited say in how he (death row's population is 98.5% male) goes...
...Maryville (pop. 9,500), 34 miles west, and one month earlier another had opened in Bethany (pop. 3,100), 18 miles east. Their parking lots were full of McConkey's neighbors and friends, lured there through the winter's cold by the powerful Wal-Mart merchandising mystique and retail prices often below his wholesale cost. He thought then, and thinks today, that he and his partner and brother Richard did everything right to withstand the normal merchandising revolution of the past 40 years brought by good roads, city malls and the early discounters like K Mart...
...students should like the new look. It'llbe more upscale, more retail," Berry said
...CAPTION: Retail Sales...