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...take a back seat for a while and we stay home and share our lives and thoughts with our friends and family. But the retail industry never takes a vacation and they use the holidays as an excuse to lure you into their stores for bargains and hope...
...billon because of underfunded pension plans in bankrupt steel companies and troubled companies in the airline and retail industries, Steven Kandarian, the PBGC's executive director, told Congress last month. Also, pension funds of major corporations...
...workers so hard to find. The scarcity of qualified employees has been felt for some time in the food service and retail industries. But the problem goes far beyond those segments of the economy. Consider these items from the fields of medicine...
...stores like the one in Moose Lake, where Poirier, 19, worked the night she was abducted. The bill, opposed by the retail industry, passed the Senate 59 to 3 but wasn't heard in the House. Other Poirier-inspired bills, to boost crime prevention...
...they just may not be buying apparel or they are buying apparel at heavier discounts," said Michael Niemira, a retail-industry analyst with Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in New York. "The furniture and consumer electronics continue to do very...
...disappointing drop in August sales for most clothing sellers and only modest sales increases for much of the rest of the retail industry. Aggravating the situation this year, said Todd Slater, a retail analyst with Lazard Frere in New York, many apparel...
Apparel sellers in November benefited from colder weather throughout much of the nation, but the retail industry overall fared only moderately well as a slowing economy continued to weigh upon the sector. In spite of some better-than-expected...
...the Senate passed a similar bill with only three votes against it, but the plan faced strong opposition from the retail industry and never received a hearing in the House. Rep. Becky Lourey, DFL-Kerrick, the sponsor of the bill, predicted...
...headquarters has been even lighter than usual. The company, with a 6 percent share of the $30 billion U.S. toy retail industry, is back on its own after two decades of being a subsidiary. KB's managers, with the backing of a Boston-based...