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...About 450 coffee importers opt to pay above-market rates for certain beans and then sell the product as premium coffee in 45,000 stores nationwide with Fair Trade certification, an independent audit from TransFair USA. The Fair Trade sector accounts for just 2% of the $22 billion domestic retail coffee market. But the industry is striving to keep up with rising public expectations for the way the brew comes to market...
There's nothing sexy about bad publicity. Victoria's Secret has had its fair share over the years, usually fueled by critics of the retail company's suggestive lingerie ads or semi-nude fashion show, which returned this month after a two-year hiatus. But now the attacks are coming from a bunch of tree huggers in suits. Forest Ethics, an environmental-advocacy group, has launched a national campaign of protests, including some 150 last month at Victoria's Secret stores around the country...
...Berrios says Rigoberto was a manager at a retail paint store and kept a tidy house. "Every time I came by he was always watering his lawn in the back and the trees. He had brought two specific trees from Costa Rica. When I bought the house, it looked like it had just been built. That's how immaculate...
According to the National Retail Federation, the typical shopper spent $302.81 during the Thanksgiving weekend for a total of $27.8 billion. That's a 21.9% increase over the same period last year ? More than 60 million shoppers hit the stores on Black Friday, an increase of 7.9 % over 2004 ? And by Sunday, Nov. 28, the average person had completed 35.6 % of his or her holiday shopping
...struggling to project value and pizzazz. Not that they aren't trying. Nordstrom is offering to take your list over the phone, wrap every item and give you the whole bundle curbside. But service goes only so far when others are competing on price, says Paco Underhill, president of retail consultant Envirosell, who estimates that "10% to 15% of customers are walking out the doors of the mass merchants empty-handed...