Word: retailing
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...along comes a development that may render their expensive turntables and library of LPs as out of date as Edison's first talking machine. This month Sony and Magnavox are introducing a limited number of digital record players in audio and department stores across the U.S. The machines, which retail for $800 to $1,000, use a laser beam instead of a conventional tone arm and stylus to play compact discs, or CDs, that will sell for about $17. Says Dan Davis, vice president of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers: "There is a consensus that this is perhaps...
Seventeen years and a quantum market shift later, natural and organic foods own the hottest corner of food retailing, in which soccer moms mingle with ponytailed herbalists in the aisles of sparkling new stores. Sales of organic products alone, a mere $178 million in 1980, have blossomed into more than $4 billion, while sales of "natural" products--a term that's slicker than soy paste--have tripled in the 1990s and now exceed $12 billion. The retail organic-and-natural-foods business is gorging itself on 20%-plus annual-sales increases, in contrast to a subsistence diet...
Although the Personal and Professional models can be found in most places for $250 and $370, respectively, there is no need to pay more than $200 or $300. These significantly-reduced prices can be found through a simple search of online retail databases such as www.pricescan.com or www.pricewatch.com...
Three months of stocking shelves with brassierres in a peach-scented retail store was enough for Danice L. Woodley '00, who stayed home last summer in Schenectady, New York working for a Victoria's Secret outlet in a local shopping center...
...this again," she recalls thinking of her experience in the retail industry. "I'm not a fan of mall jobs...