CNN 2010-12-24

I mean retail -- well the word retail is always the leading sector where you can judge a lot of things for how the economy is going. I mean look at what retail was many years ago. Some parts of East Africa are still informal. We -- retail brings a lo

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Full of Beans In 1895, a man named Luigi Lavazza purchased a little grocery store in northern Italy for about US$20. Today, over one hundred years later, Luigi Lavazza S.p.A is the irrefutable leader

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Well known businesses across the United States are facing hard decisions about keeping their stores open. Experts say Americans are changing the way they buy clothing and other products. They say people are making more purchases over the Internet and

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These days, shopping often involves an Internet connection and a laptop or smartphone. However, businesses are now trying to use new technology, such as 3D printing and augmented reality, to bring customers back into stores. At the recent National Re

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It took some time to figure out just the right shopping complex, off just the right highway interchange and just the right distance from Seoul, that could accommodate a 624,000-square-foot storethat is to say, one more than three times the size of th

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The economy is still in a recession and for the second consecutive year, Mom is taking a hit on Mother's Day. US consumers will spend $123.89 on average on Mother's Day, down more than 10 percent from a year ago, according to a survey released on Thu

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CHRISTOPHER BOOKER: The only way you can see inside the recently closed Winnsboro, South Carolina, Walmart is through a small hole torn into the cloth of the sliding front doors. The opening offers a surprisingly wide glimpse of a store that once sol

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By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 05 June 2006 watch World Bank Store report Shopping inside the World Bank store, called Pangea The World Bank has taken a new approach to globalization. The organization b

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Scalpers dial up trouble for iPhone release

BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Conflicts among hundreds of scalpers raring to stock up on the new iPhone 4S are casting a shadow over the gadget's launch on the Chinese mainland on Friday. Over the weekend, scalpers from two groups bickered and shov

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While these are all iconic institutions in America， they are not all American owned any longer （as you can see in our Top 10 American Icons that are not American）。 This is a list of the ten top mega-franchises - the biggest of the big！ 10 C