Thomas Cook to close 150 stores
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Travel company Thomas Cook, which recently merged with rival MyTravel, will close 150 stores and six offices.
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Ailing electronics retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. yesterday said it would close 19 stores, five regional offices and a distribution center, launching a major cost-cutting campaign just one day after disclosing it has become the subject of a takeover bid.
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Ten major food stores withdraw nearly 50 salmon products from sale because of contamination fears.
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Taco Bell has closed four restaurants in New York as a precautionary measure after a suspected E.coli outbreak at one of its New Jersey outlets sickened nearly a dozen people, the Yum Brand Inc. unit said on Monday.
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Retailer Saks Inc. SKS.N on Friday  said it will close eight of its luxury Saks Fifth Avenue stores  and three of its lower-price Off 5th stores, resulting in a  loss of 700 jobs at those stores.
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BOSTON  Â Talbots will close its 78 childrenâs and menâs apparel stores to focus on its core middle-age female customer, the company said Friday.
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Stop &amp; Shop and Shaw's, two of New England's largest grocery chains, said yesterday that they responded to reports of a salmonella outbreak by ordering their stores to pull all Peter Pan peanut butter off their shelves.
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Struggling clothing retailer Wet Seal Inc. (WTSLA.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday said it will close about 150 underperforming stores as part of a major restructuring plan and layoff about 2,000 employees.
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Music retailer Fopp closes its 105 shops, becoming the latest victim of the slump in CD sales.
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Circuit City Stores Inc., the nation's No. 2 consumer electronics retailer, said Thursday it plans to close seven domestic Superstores, a Kentucky distribution center and 62 company-owned stores in Canada to cut costs and improve its financial performance.
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Retailer Saks Inc.  on Friday said it will close eight of its luxury Saks Fifth Avenue stores and three of its lower-price Off 5th stores, resulting in a loss of 700 jobs at those stores.
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Circuit City said it was closing about 70 stores, most of them in Canada, and that its chief merchandising officer had left the company.
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LONDON_Luxury carmaker Jaguar said Friday it was stopping assembly work at its headquarters and cutting 1,150 jobs as a result of overproduction and poor sales in the key U.S. market.
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Teen fashion retailer The Wet Seal Inc. said Tuesday it plans to close around 150 stores and lay off about 2,000 employees as part of a strategy to cut costs.
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CHICAGO (CBS.MW) - Pressured by declining sales and rising costs, specialty retailer Wet Seal said late Tuesday that it will close about 150 of its stores, leaving thousands of employees high and dry in early 2005.
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Shipping giant P&amp;O is to close four of its 13 ferry routes with the loss of about 1,200 jobs. Reducing the number of ships it operates from 31 to 23, the company said it would be closing all its Western Channel routes except Portsmouth-Bilbao.
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Business & money: Supermarket chain to cut several hundred jobs, three months after saying its future was secure.