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After slashing inventory and cutting expenses, the retail industry is still bracing for the largest overall quarterly profit decline in at least nine years when merchants report their first-quarter earnings this week.
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In a slowing economy, the more upscale the retailer, it seems, the more they’re struggling.
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More than a half-million pieces of Chinese-made children’s jewelry contaminated with lead are being recalled, it was announced Wednesday.
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A TV installed on top of a gas pump at a BP Gas Station in Anderson, Ind. is seen Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Ricker Oil Co. president Jay Ricker, operator of this station and 29 others throughout Indiana, is experimenting with the pump-top televisions...
