Word: stores
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Macy's restructured itself, the company said same-store sales might be off as much as 8% as the year goes by. That is based on a forecast that no on can really make. As the recession deepens even relatively conservative estimates can be wrong...
...industry, retail holds on to people as long as it can. A store that closes means that inventory has to be moved somewhere else. It also means real estate and rent negotiations. A closed store is hard to reopen. The customers get in the habit of going somewhere else...
...this pilgrimage to Jesus Diamante, one of the first fashion brands to promote hime-kei, as the look is known, with its frilly pastel frocks and ringlet hairdos. With money earned from part-time work, the girls plan to shop for two hours at the brand's Harajuku store before heading to its Shinjuku branch. "I love their design. It amps me up!" enthuses Nagamine. (Watch TIME's video "Princess Fashion in Tokyo...
...futures traders call a massive contango - that is, future prices of oil are at extreme highs relative to the current price. Therein lies opportunity: buying and holding oil now, then selling it in the future, can generate an almost risk-free profit. Citigroup has already leased a supertanker to store oil that it will sell later this year. (Read "A Brief History of the Oil Barrel...
...lives in Louisville has updated their status to talk about what they've seen, or to tell people where they're staying." As the week-long waiting game continues, Schuster says it's the small miracles that are still making people smile: "My roommate works at a Dollar Store, and they've moved the microwave up front so people without power can come in, buy frozen meals, and then cook and eat them right there, on the spot...