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Specialty/Non-Apparel (InternetRetailer.com)
Mass merchants have customers with wide-ranging tastes looking for any number of products. Specialty retailers, however, are filling a niche. And in niche retailing, it's critical that merchants know their customers very well. SkyPostal Expands Punto Mio Internet Shopping Facilitator Services to Middle East (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
MIAMI & DUBAI, United Arab Emirates----SkyPostal Networks, Inc. , the largest private postal network in Latin America, today announced that it has entered into a joint venture agreement with E-Commerce Ltd. to expand the Punto Mio online shopping facilitator services to the Middle East. Signs of the times (Boston Globe)
BURLINGTON - Even as cars jostled for spaces at the Burlington Mall on a recent morning, there were troubling signs nearby. Inside, Sharper Image had been deleted from the tenant roster. Across the street, the block letters of a Mattress Discounters sign hung above an empty store, another victim of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. Black Friday blog (Chicago Tribune)
Deal alerts and shopping updates from all over. With mobile broadband, who needs an NBN? (telecomasia.net)
This week Telstra dipped its toe in Australia's NBN, and the EU agreed to cap SMS and data roaming. Telstra submitted a bid to build the Australian next-gen broadband network, after months of threatening a boycott. But its proposal fell well short of the required scale. Real Estate Live (Washington Post)
Welcome to Real Estate Live, an online discussion of the Washington area housing market with Post Real Estate editor Maryann Haggerty and columnist Elizabeth Razzi. John Hussman Buys WalMart Stores Inc., Panera Bread Company, Network Appliance Inc., Sells Adobe Systems Inc., The ... (Guru Focus)
Dr. John Hussman of Hussmand Funds is one of the few who saw the crisis coming, and successfully took actions to avoid losses. We have just added him into our List of Gurus. John Hussman owns 132 stocks with a total value of $3.5 billion. These are the details of the buys and sells during the third quarter. John Hussman buys WalMart Stores Inc., Panera Bread Company, Network Appliance Inc., ... The New Frugality: Americans return to thriftiness (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
Frugality is making a comeback. Fearful that economic conditions could get worse and stay that way, Americans are showing an enthusiasm for thriftiness not seen in decades. Aliquippa's six days to Heinz (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
The week with Aliquippa gearing up for the WPIAL Class AA championship game Colorado businesses trim the sails (Rocky Mountain News)
Colorado businesses are scrutinizing every expense to find ways big and small to cut their budgets -- including laying off workers, turning off lights and canceling holiday parties -- to be able to survive in these dark economic times.
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