Word: sales
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Porn star JENNA JAMESON'S white silk couch up for sale. Giant bottle of Febreze sold separately...
...Other specialty merchants in troubled waters include Talbots, the conservative women's clothing boutique, whose same-store sales plunged 14% in the third quarter. "In their case it might be an overexpansion problem as they got into men's and children's clothing and then made the acquisition of J.Jill, which wasn't smart," says Neil Stern, senior partner at McMillan Doolittle, a Chicago-based retail-consulting firm. That half-billion-dollar acquisition is currently up for sale, but no one is biting. Meanwhile, outdoor-apparel shop Eddie Bauer emerged from bankruptcy in June 2005 with a $450 million bank...
...tried to provide an alternative to stores where students were treated like a guaranteed sale,” he says...
...complicated relationships among native Americans and Mexicans in the borderlands: "Having made peace with an Apache band, it was not uncommon for a Mexican village to undertake a thriving trade with their new associates in goods seized from other settlements. '[W]hat was stolen from one Mexican found ready sale to another,' noted an observer, 'the plunder from Senora finding its way into the hands of the settlers of Chihuahua, or... selling without trouble to the Mexicans living along the Rio Grande...
...sale of Citigroup used to be unthinkable. But at $20 billion in market capitalization, Citigroup has become a more digestible acquisition. Still, a number of the financial firms that would be interested are either hurting on their own and could not afford to add Citi's troubled loans to its books, or have just completed another acquisition. So cross Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo off the list...