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Retailers Post Sluggish Sales in March

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — With little money left after buying food and fuel, American shoppers handed most retailers their most dismal March in 13 years. As r...

Shoppers Snap Up Bargain, Avoid Luxe Goods

Los Angeles Times | Leslie Earnest | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Retail sales rose more than expected in February as shoppers headed to discounters in search of bargains. But with Americans in no mood to splurge, lu...

Costco Profit Rises 31 Percent As Shoppers Stock Up On Food

Bloomberg | Lauren Coleman-Lochner, Thomas Mulier | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Costco Wholesale Corp., the largest U.S. warehouse-club chain, said second-quarter profit rose 31 percent as shoppers stocked up on food to make fewer...

Costco Starts A Barroom Brawl

BusinessWeek | Nanette Burns | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


One of the perceived social ills inspiring Prohibition was the owning of bars by brewers. To the Anti-Saloon League and like-minded groups, this arran...

Retailers Fight Back, Tighten Up Return Policies

Los Angeles Times | Molly Selvin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Memo to serial returners: They're on to you. Liberal rules that allowed customers to return just about anything just about anytime are no more at man...