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...jack-o-lanterns are still on the stoop, but already we're seeing prices for holiday ornaments slashed in half at J.C. Penney and pricey toys at Wal-Mart marked down to $10 a pop. Home Depot skipped Halloween altogether, piling up Christmas trees by early October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Retailers Get Consumers into the Christmas Spirit? | 11/1/2008 | See Source »

...there’s a gorgeous natural environment with a relentless assault of strip malls,” Howk said in an interview last week. “Wasilla is one big road that cuts through town and there’s a grocery store and a Wal-Mart...and a strip mall...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gov. TF from Wasilla Dishes on Palin | 10/28/2008 | See Source »

Prior to Palin’s nomination, the town’s most recent claim to fame was that its Wal-Mart sold more duct tape than any Wal-Mart in the world in 2002, Howk said. (The Department of Homeland Security had issued a directive to stock up on duct tape and plastic sheeting to seal windows during chemical or biological attacks...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gov. TF from Wasilla Dishes on Palin | 10/28/2008 | See Source »

...drive north of Orlando. Sanford's demographics are attractive: its population grew 27%, to about 50,000, between 2000 and 2006. Within a few miles of downtown, Tunis says, are households boasting annual incomes of $30,000 to $250,000. That's partly what has attracted retailers like Target, Wal-Mart and Lowe's. "You name the retailers, we've got them," Tunis says. "But we've been underserved by grocers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aldi: A Grocer for the Recession | 10/28/2008 | See Source »

...Aldi store in downtown Sanford, next to one of Seminole County's largest shopping centers. Now he's hoping other grocers will follow Aldi's lead. "There's really no equivalent at the moment," he says. Deep discounters like Aldi can challenge both conventional supermarket chains as well as Wal-Mart, America's largest grocer. Indeed, Wal-Mart ultimately found it too hard to compete in Germany, where deep-discounters are firmly entrenched, and left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aldi: A Grocer for the Recession | 10/28/2008 | See Source »

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