Word: retailing
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...delicacy that commands about $100 a plate. Customs officials frequently seize illegal shipments on the way into the country. But plenty slips through, and a recent study published in Science suggests that some of it comes from whales that can't be hunted legally. Investigators bought whale meat in retail markets all over ! Japan. Using DNA tests, researchers found that some of it came from fin whales, humpbacks and other protected species. "We were stunned to find humpback being sold in a Hiroshima supermarket," says Don White, president of Earthtrust, the Hawaii-based group that sponsored the study. "They...
...vote on Question Five is a vote to allow retail stores to open at any time on Sundays and certain legal holidays--Memorial Day, Labor Day and the Fourth of July. Currently, retail stores in the state remain open before noon on Sundays if granted special exemptions by the local police chief (convenience stores and video rental stores are exempt from the rule...
...collection before it is sent to stores and has been known to delay or refuse shipments of pieces that are not perfectly executed to her specifications. To keep her production schedules on target and to make sure - there isn't anything lacking in her line, Sander boldly asks retail buyers to make their orders ahead of the conventional schedule set by other designers. "It takes a lot of guts to ask buyers to buy out of season," says Debra Pearlstein Greenberg, an executive at Louis, Boston, the posh store that houses an expansive new Sander boutique. "It's amazing that...
...while legions of individuals continued to follow Garzarelli's forecasts, Lehman Bros. sold its retail brokerage to Smith Barney last year and now concentrates on institutional investors. With the brokerage went the thousands of small clients whom Garzarelli had attracted. That made her expendable to Lehman, which went public last May and posted just $22 million in second- quarter earnings, down 79% from a year earlier. The firm has cut 800 jobs, or 8.5% of its work force, so far this year...
Another issue which may affect students is Question 5, which proposes to reform Massachusetts' "Blue Laws," by allowing retail stores to open on Sunday mornings and national holidays...