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...over the long weekend. In addition to the musical performances, there was also a children's area, an arts and crafts area and lots of food vendors. Because of the price tag attached to the festival, MIX solicits presenting and participating sponsors. This year's two presenting sponsors were Wal-Mart and Christy's. The many participating sponsors included Boston television's Channel 7, whose arts staff was on hand to introduce bands, as well as Strawberries music store who set up onsite, selling CDs and holding autograph sessions with the artists...
...some in the industry. Although the Toys "R" Us tactics may sound like bullying, retailers do this sort of thing all the time in an effort to get exclusive merchandise or to protect themselves from price wars. Toys "R" Us was already under severe pressure from discounters such as Wal-Mart when the warehouse clubs, led by Costco, started to move in on toys. The Toys "R" Us share of the $30.2 billion industry has fallen from 25.4% in 1990 to 20.5%, while Wal-Mart's has grown from...
...quaint American retailer that became a fixture in most traditional down-town strips gave way to efficient convenience chains like Wal-Mart or Target, offering only the bare necessities of everyday life...
...Mart deal is really the second harvest of a previously unfruitful Martha-K Mart association. Since 1987, Stewart has been a mostly decorative "life-style consultant" for the retailer. But the arrangement, like K Mart's bottom line, foundered badly as competitors like Wal-Mart and Target flourished. When Stewart joined K Mart, she was the author of several successful books on entertaining and wedding planning, and the company, based in Troy, Mich., was the nation's biggest retailer, with sales of $23.99 billion and a stock price of $14.88. Back then, Wal-Mart was a distant second, with sales...
...Stone of old did make an appearance in the question-and-answer session. Warming to the audience, he ripped into modern American culture with zest, blaming the spiritually devoid lives of teens on pervasive media-influenced materialism. On the Block-buster Video and Wal-Mart policies forbidding NC-17 videos and many CD's: "I personally would like to blow up Blockbuster...I would like to nuke Wal-Mart...