Word: stores
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...There were satisfactions in store: a rapturously received Carnegie Hall concert in 1974; Alone With Me and I'm Still Here: Confessions of a Sex Kitten, follow-ups to her '50s autobiography Thursday's Child; and her distinctive voicing of the villainous Yzma in the Disney animated feature The Emperor's New Groove and its Saturday-morning TV spinoff The Emperor's New School, which earned her two Emmys...
...nickname "Santa Claus" has been growing in popularity, so St. Nick adopts it when he greets thousands of children at a Philadelphia department store. He also appears in newspaper advertisements around this time, urging people to buy Christmas presents...
...Santa adopts Rudolph - the creation of a Montgomery Ward store employee...
...Another retail group, the International Council of Shopping Centers, reported on Tuesday that same-store sales in November and December may drop as much as 2%. That is more than the previously projected 1% decline and would make this the worst Christmas sales season since...
...Another strategy: avoid comparison shopping. In a store, you're likely to compare the specs of one flat-screen TV to the next, even though at home only the absolute experience matters, not the relative one. In your family room, whether the screen is 42" or 46" might not be nearly as big a deal as how easy the remote is to use. You'll get a better feel for the overall experience of each TV if you look at one and then leave the store for a few minutes before coming back in to look at the next...