Word: stored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latter is used much more frequently. You only get 50s and 100s from your aunt on your birthday. Once you get one, you either hold onto it or you deposit it. You use the $20 all the time. A month or so ago, you would go to the music store and plop down a $20-bill to pay for a CD. Now, you must fear the clerk will say, "Mister, we don't accept Monopoly money...
...blocking and tackling aspects of retailing, such as controlling inventory and providing polite and knowledgeable service. An assistant manager at a New Jersey Toys "R" Us outlet led a visitor through a cavernous storage room piled floor to ceiling with everything from Micro Machines to mattresses. The store's inventory, she said, often surpasses $1 million. Multiply that by the 1,462 Toys "R" Us stores, and you see the scope of the problem...
...address the chain's problems, Nakasone's predecessor last January ballyhooed "Concept 2000," a revitalization plan calling for, among other things, less cluttered, brighter, cleaner stores. But only a month later, Nakasone took over, and in September he replaced the plan with something he calls "C-3." (Don't ask.) It targets service improvements as well as inventory reductions. It promises a $500,000-a-store renovation that will include an oval "racetrack" layout providing 18% more selling space. And it envisions a diversification into products such as clothing and electronics, which Nakasone hopes will attract more customers outside...
When Harvard was an all-men's school, a large department store was more profitable, Murphy said. Before the restructuring, the Coop's lackluster sales left members without a rebate...
...Coop's competitors said they were not fazedby the store's gains, and they were critical ofthe Coop for hiring Barnes and Noble. Carol Horne,merchandise manager of the Harvard Book Store,said the Coop's success will not impact profits...