Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...screaming that prices on basics are too high, and they are right. The problem is that with government funds and workers concentrated in state-controlled industries, production of high- quality civilian goods has not caught up with demand. Nor is it likely to until the factories, farms and retail outlets are privatized -- a process that will take years. Only about 20% of workers are employed in the private sector, and there is evidence most people are not even convinced that privatization is a good idea. In a study by the Russian Center for Public Opinion Research last summer...
...worst video games ever made. The resulting disaster, known in the industry as "the crash of 1984," brought Atari into bankruptcy court and nearly dragged down its corporate parent, Warner Communications, as well. Some of those unsold E.T. cartridges can still be found on the dusty back shelves of retail stores...
...diversification of Harvard Square, the store's high fixed costs and the still-sluggish retail market could conspire to deal another severe blow to the Coop's finances and the student rebate...
...diversification of Harvard Square, the store's high fixed costs and the still-sluggish retail market could conspire to deal another severe blow to the Coop's finances and the student rebate...
...Hafts' vast retail empire was born 39 years ago in Washington, with Gloria nudging her husband Herbert out of the back of their drugstore and the couple boldly borrowing from Gloria's parents and liquidating their children's bonds to gamble on a discount pharmacy. The venture thrived and grew into the Dart drugstore chain, which the Hafts went on to parlay into a retailing conglomerate. With $1.2 billion in sales today and about 600 outlets in seven states, the Hafts' Dart Group, which includes Crown Books and Trak Auto stores, has kept the family in Range Rovers and Florida...