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Attention holiday shoppers: Returning all those silly snowflake sweaters, that fifth pair of Isotoners or that Chia Pet is about to get a little tougher. Retailers have been tightening their policies and relying on computer authorization systems to track and limit returns and exchanges, and this year they're even more aware of fraudulent returns. Retailers say they are just trying to soften the hit they expect to take--as much as $30 billion each year--from theft and fraud. "Honest customers won't be denied when they're in the right," says Joseph LaRocca, vice president of loss prevention...
When All Is Fair opened at 45 Mt. Auburn St. yesterday, the pro-union retail outlet became the newest occupant of a site that has seen a tumultuous history. Currently owned by the Foundation for Civic Leadership, a Cambridge-based nonprofit, the space was previously occupied by Pi Eta, an all-male social club that folded shortly after a 1991 out-of-court settlement with a woman who alleged that she had been raped at the club. In the years before it closed, Pi Eta had become a regular object of controversy on campus. In 1979, a student was paralyzed...
...Fair, a retail outlet that only sells products made by unionized workers, opened for business yesterday at 45 Mt. Auburn...
...three months' time. The breathtaking showroom is a cathedral of curving bamboo, designed by renowned Malaysian architect Cheong Yew Kuan. It's easy to chuckle when Hardy speaks of building replicas on the roofs of malls in the U.S., turning those wasted acres into gardens and bringing luxury retail to a whole new level?the garden level. But then you realize, he's serious. And then you start to think, Well...
...larger outlet stores. He said EMS’s larger stores saw much greater increases with this weekend’s sales, while his branch does better around events such as the Head of the Charles and Harvard Parent’s Weekend, and any day it snows. Many retailers said the Square was losing its status as a unique shopping destination as it draws more and more tourists. Nicole MacDonald, manager of Jasmine Sola’s shoe store, said that in contrast to the larger Jasmine Sola clothing store next door, the shoes were not drawing customers...