Word: retailing
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...ABNNF framework calls for approximately 640 mixed-income units interspersed with new retail, spread out over the 28 additional acres of the Harvard-owned Holton Street Corridor, which is adjacent to the proposed Charlesview relocation site...
...plan requires Harvard to transact some land that they have no plans for,” McHale said. “The best use of this land is for housing, parks, retail, and open space that will knit the neighborhoods back together...
...last few years, super-simple LA-based American Apparel has ingrained itself in hipster culture on both coasts while simultaneously expanding to become the USA’s largest clothing manufacturer, with hundreds of retail locations all over the world. The philosophy behind its fashion falls somewhere between comfy minimalism and 1980s thrift-store retro. But, given its prices, its clientele, and a recession, the question arises—will there be a place for t-shirts and spandex that simply cost too much?In the late 1990s, Dov Charney—hailed before as the Larry Flynt of fashion?...
...Those declines followed a trickle of new data suggesting a slowing of U.S. economic activity, and follow-through damage inflicted by the global financial crisis. Statistics released Wednesday showed American retail sales were off 1.2% in September - almost double the expected decline. That added weight to other indicators suggesting U.S. consumer spending - which represents nearly 70% of American economic activity - is declining due to fears over economic turmoil and job security...
...beating. Anna Weiss, 67, of Houston embodies the anxiety now taking hold across the country. "I saved for 30 years. I have saved and saved and saved so that I could afford some of the nice things that I never allowed myself when I was young," says the retired retail manager. "Now I find because of other people's stupidity that the money I have saved has shrunk...