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...cost 10% to 20% more than off-the-rack items. Jupiter Research found in a recent study that more than half of consumers were willing to pay $10 extra to custom-order a pair of $50 slacks--but not much more. "The economy's bad," says Madison Riley of retail consultants Kurt Salmon Associates. "But if it's not going to stop people spending, they'll make for darn sure what they do spend is on the best quality...
...space-saving balls that can be tossed into any carryon or briefcase. The footwear does have drawbacks. The soles are too thin to jog on, so Reebok is touting its Travel Trainers as good for walking on the beach or treadmill and doing yoga. The brightly colored shoes, which retail for $75, have won fans in Britain, France and Japan, where Reebok sells them from vending machines at airports and train stations. In the U.S. the shoes are being marketed as high fashion and are available only at trendy stores like Barneys in New York City and Fred Segal...
Even as the application of data mining has spread throughout the retail, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and financial sectors, the lingering tech slump has slowed the technology's growth. This year will go down as the worst in history for information technology, with sales falling 2.3% after averaging a 12% annual growth rate over the past 20 years. Data-mining companies have been among the hardest hit in recent years: MicroStrategy, based in McLean, Va., rode the near messianic predictions of founder and CEO Michael Saylor from a market capitalization of $1 billion to more than $20 billion and back again...
...INDICATORS Batteries Weren't Included Game Group, the U.K.'s largest computer-games retailer, announced a profits warning amid "disappointing" Christmas sales. This put a chill on all retail stocks, with the exception of the coal-in-the-stocking sector...
...addition to the afterschool and green space proposals, the requests ask Harvard to limit the impacts of construction, study how its new facilities would affect traffic and preserve retail space along Mass...