Word: stores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...processor, flashed it on a Comp IV desktop computer game, scented it with Chanel No. 19 and set it to play with Star Wars toys. Those items sold briskly this Christmas, as did women's underpants labeled "Bloomie's" (for Bloomingdale's, the big Manhattan department store) and hundreds of other expensive baubles for the kitchen, bedroom, bath and body. When the buying spree ended on Christmas Eve, U.S. retailers, as exhausted as their customers, could look back on their most successful Christmas ever...
...rise of about 6% in retail prices between the two Christmases is discounted, the sales gains are solid-and the buying momentum continued into last week as postholiday sales began. At 8 a.m. Monday, the day after Christmas, shoppers began lining up outside a Bullock's department store in Los Angeles in a drenching rain, waiting for the doors to open...
...sales promotion at Bloomingdale's: "Price was no object." The French-made metal-housed Cuisinart, which slices, dices, chops, minces and shreds faster than conventional individual tools, sells for $225. Yet it and lower-priced competitors (La Machine, Omnichef) flew off shelves so fast that almost no store could seem to keep them in stock. Neiman-Marcus in Houston sold 24 West German-made exercise machines ($2,000) before running...
...barrio, bodegas (grocery stores) like El Coloso on Broadway which cater to Latin American tastes are close at hand. Also close by is Casa Alegre, a Latin-American record store which sells Spanish newspapers and statuettes of the saints as a sideline. Around the corner in Central Square is the Latin-O Restaurant. Its authentic Hispanic cuisin attracts a 90 per cent Anglo clientele, however. After all, local Hispanics can buy in the neighborhood bodega the same ingredients the Latin-O uses, and make equally authentic Latin cuisine in their homes...
Both DiGiovanni and Herald declined to release the names of the firms that plan to occupy the building, but employees at the Harvard Book Store said their textbook, used paperback and law book branches will relocate to the new complex...