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None of the improvements are breakthrough retailing ideas, but by sprucing up displays and introducing higher-end products, Home Depot can get each shopper to spend a little more. Home Depot's best-selling ceiling fan used to be a $19 model; now it's a $199 model. In the first quarter, the average ticket rose 7.4%, to $55.11, a record for Home Depot, although still below the $59 average ticket of Lowe...
...economy as it has in society. Some 586 distinct new low-carb foods and beverages hit the grocery shelves last quarter, up from 633 in all of last year and 339 in 2002, bringing the total over just two years to 1,558 new entries. The average carb-conscious shopper spends $85 a month on specialty foods. Low-carb-related sales from such consumables as Michelob Ultra beer and books like Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution are expected to hit $30 billion this year, reports LowCarbiz, a trade publication that owes its existence to carbophobia...
...city-working husband, she is first of all the manager of home and brood, and beyond that a sort of aproned activist with a penchant for keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling. With children on her mind and under her foot, she is breakfast getter, laundress, housecleaner, dishwasher, shopper, gardener, encyclopedia, arbitrator of children's disputes, policeman. If she is not pregnant, she wonders if she is. She takes her peanut-butter sandwich lunch while standing, thinks she looks a fright, watches her weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor ... Spotted through...
Bergdorf Goodman, Barneys, Geminola, which has primarily vintage pieces that have been redyed. I love Kirna Zabete and the vintage store What Comes Around Goes Around. [But] I am not a huge shopper...
...pair of jeans. That's what brings the 24-year-old to the H&M flagship store in Paris on her way home from work one recent evening. Around her, a group of teenage girls trolls for emergency club gear; three Russian tourists buy lingerie; and a shopper misplaces her Louis Vuitton handbag. A gruff female voice breaks through the pop sound track to discourage standing in line for the fitting rooms: "You have 30 days to change your mind and return purchases...