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| detailed look inside the world of retail as Tux is experiencing it (OS News) |
| "Free open source software is making slow in-roads into the world of big box retail. This article is the first of a series of two Mad Penguin articles which take a . Today, in Section One Mad Penguin goes shopping to see what can be seen in four retail big box stores in the San Francisco Bay Area, complete with short videos inside some of those stores for the purpose of providing a wee bit of ... |
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| Retail Changes Key To Starbucks Closings (NPR) |
| Starbucks announced this week that it's closing about 600 stores, but it's not the only chain slimming down to meet hard economic times. Retail consultant Howard Davidowitz says consumers are going to get so scared they will start saving and spend less. |
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| RETAIL (Crain's New York Business) |
| Retail statistics offer clues about the items New Yorkers value: clothes and food. City dwellers spend relatively large sums on apparel. And the city's restaurants and bars are expected to take in $14.9 billion in 2008, more than food stores' $12.6 billion. |
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