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...PAULO As always, the Latin-playboy look is popular among Sao Paulo's shoppers. Gucci's sunglasses featuring a studded brow bar, below, retail for $250 at Daslu, the city's most popular fashion emporium...
...finished reading Jane Austen's Persuasion--a fact she announces with an impassioned "Oh!" from her sofa on the 30th floor of the New York City offices of Burberry --is fitting. She has engaged in a grand-scale persuasion of her own of late that is widely considered a retail marvel...
...stocks will simply prove to be the next bubble waiting to pop. Already, there are some ominous signs of irrational exuberance. For example, a firm called China Green Holdings, which began trading for the first time on Jan. 13, became the most popular IPO in Hong Kong history, with retail investors placing $4 billion worth of orders - or enough to buy 1,604 times more shares than the company had undertaken to sell. One investor was May Wong, a 50-year-old garment importer-exporter in Hong Kong. On the opening day of trading, she and about a dozen other...
...Afford It, Madam K Louis Vuitton's New York City store unveiled retail tracking software that recalls customers' likes, how quickly they pay and which ones are serial returners...
...some 9,000 spas in the U.S., only about 500 are medical spas, which differ from day spas in that they have a doctor on staff. That allows medi-spas to perform more complicated and costly procedures. For plastic surgeons and dermatologists, medi-spas are an opportunity to go retail, with fees determined by the market rather than an insurance company. Cash or credit card, please. "There is no big chain operator, but someone very soon is going to recognize the opportunity for a liquid gold mine," says Light...