Was retail gain a turkey?
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INVESTORS dined out on retail stocks on Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving â-s US consumers made their annual pilgrimage to the malls for retail therapy.
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More retailers are offering candy at the checkout. Is this sweet success or a lack of focus?
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Last-minute Christmas shoppers helped lift this month&#39;s retail sales, but some analysts still are concerned that Americans didn&#39;t spend enough to give chain stores the boost they had requested from Santa.
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The grocery chain is struggling to turn itself around. Will investors keep the faith?
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Is merger mania taking over the retailing industry? After several sleepy years on the acquisition front, merger activity picked up dramatically this year, capped by Kmart
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Business & money: Â· Grocer buys Dobbies chain with surprise Â£156m dealÂ· Stores will retain name to avoid 'Tescofication' fears
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Shoe sales have jumped this holiday  season, but they haven't been enough to kick up holiday sales  growth overall, according to a MasterCard Advisors survey.
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In the latest snapshot of the holiday shopping season, the government reported today that retail sales increased 0.1 percent in November, a better performance than Wall Street had been expecting.
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Investor's Business Daily - Brisk buying of video games and DVDs gave online retailers a leg up this holiday. But while they didn't end up with the lump of coal that offline stores got, their sales growth likely fell short of last year.
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Britain&#39;s retail sales unexpectedly bounced back last month as shoppers apparently shrugged off the Bank of England&#39;s five interest rate rises since November.
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BusinessWeek Online - Economic reports released June 13 should turn up the heat for the remarkably bearish bond market -- and for the Federal Reserve. The day&#39;s economic releases included reports showing surprising headline strength in U.S. May retail sales, alongside a troublesome rise in import prices. Adding insult to injury, the MBA purchase index posted a robust 7.2% surge for the first full week of June.
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Business & money: Shares in the supermarket group soared by almost 5% after the State of Qatar announced it now owned 25% of the supermarket giant's shares.
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The first raw data on Internet usage yesterday indicate shoppers rode heavy on the net. But there's one important question outstanding: Were those shoppers also purchasers?
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ISTANBUL -- Markus Lehto's Turkey is a futuristic shopping complex with aerial bridges linking skinny-jeans shops to designer bag boutiques. In the attached apartment building, a pied-ÃÂ -terre designed for the global jet-setter can cost up to $2 million.
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Sated by the traditional Thanksgiving turkey, US consumers went on a multi-billion-dollar shopping fest snapping up post-holiday retail bargains in stores across America, the Visa credit card group said.
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US retail sales over the Internet rose 0.9 percent in the second quarter of 2004 and gained 23.1 percent compared with the same period last year as consumers continued to turn to e-commerce to make purchases, a government report ...
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U.S. consumers binged on toys and  electronics this Thanksgiving weekend, leaving retailers and  analysts to wonder if demand has already been satiated and  whether discounts that spurred the three-day spree will cut  into profits.