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Posts related to ‘holiday retail sales’

What’s Important in the Financial World (12/26/2011) Sony’s Failure, Yahoo! Drama

Posted: December 26, 2011 at 5:59 am

Sony (NYSE: SNE) continues to restructure itself, although the stock market has been skeptical of its success. The Japanese consumer products company sold its part of an LCD joint venture to ...
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2011 Holiday Season Weaker than Last Year (AAPL, AMZN, TIF, SKS, WMT, DG)

Posted: October 19, 2011 at 9:14 am

The 2011 holiday season is very likely going to be a tale of two classes. For the well-off -- those with discretionary incomes above $250,000 -- spending is expected to ...
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Expected Upside Gains for Leading Retailers (COST, WMT, TGT, M, JWN, KSS, BBY)

Posted: October 14, 2011 at 3:01 pm

The retail sales growth outlook for the coming holiday season has been cut to around 3%, only half the growth retailers saw in the 2010 holiday season. Of course, last ...
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GAP to Close 200 Stores — Which Retailer Is Next?

Posted: October 14, 2011 at 6:29 am

Gap (NYSE: GPS) took the coward’s way out. Buried among announcements about its global sales plans, it reported that “the company is committed to rebalancing its specialty and outlet stores ...
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The Retailers Hiring the Most Workers This Holiday Season

Posted: October 14, 2011 at 3:34 am

Each year, hundreds of thousands of temporary workers are hired by retailers to handle the demands of the holiday season. The number of seasonal workers added is considered a bellwether ...
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Why E-Commerce Still Doesn’t Count

Posted: December 8, 2010 at 6:58 pm

There has been just as much written about e-commerce as there is about bricks-and-mortar sales this holiday season, if a quick read of online business sites and financial publications is ...
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