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...these markets were a person, they'd be Woody Allen. Upon receipt of more good news about the soft landing Tuesday from the Commerce Department - retail sales dropped 0.3 percent in May and were revised down again for April, the first consecutive drop since the summer of 1998 - investors' neuroses kicked in. Suddenly, the worry wasn't that Alan Greenspan would raise rates again at month's end. It was that he'd already gone too far. Tech selling slid the NASDAQ down on the news, and financials did the same to the Dow. Consumers, the heroes of the expansion...
...Before he left Harvard for Disney, Berry's accomplishments included revamping the menu, instituting salad and sandwich bars, inventing "festive meals" and creating retail branches including the popular Science Center Greenhouse...
...John DiGiovanni, president of Trinity Property Management, a real estate company with retail holdings in the Square, disagrees...
While some independents scramble for alternatives, like selling handbags and jewelry, others are sticking to being beautiful. "Retail stores are dominated by the big names, but that doesn't mean we're doomed," says Ibeauty.com vice president Shirley Lord. Smaller brands sold on her site are in more demand than people realize, she says, because they are the same hard-to-find lipsticks and mascaras recommended by fashion magazines...
SMELL THE FUTURE A company called DigiScents is developing an olfactory peripheral for home computers called the iSmell. It's like an audio speaker, but instead of sounds it makes smells. Sound crazy? Not everybody thinks so. Retail giant Procter & Gamble has signed on as a partner, and DigiScents is currently creating smells to accompany the best-selling computer game Tomb Raider. Get ready to experience Lara Croft in two separate scents: "regular" and "sweaty." Can't wait...