Penney will go from the most interesting retailer of the year back to being a dinosaur in a world cold to its charms.
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Not for the time being, says Neil Saunders, an analyst at Verdict Research, which has released a report showing Tesco will overtake Argos to become the U.K.'s biggest nonfood retailer by the end of the year.
Day, the 56-year-old chief executive of the struggling electronics retailer, made a bit more in 2008 than the year before.
Research firm NPD Group listed Big Fish as the top casual digital retailer in the US in the first half of this year.
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"The branch has been identified as one that could potentially be partnered with a retailer between the autumn of this year and spring of 2015, with any change being subject to a six week public consultation to gather the views of the local community, " said a spokesperson for the Post Office.
The weekend-long event is one of the strongest sales periods of the year for the retailer.
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He acquired more than a half-million shares of the electronics retailer between October and December of last year.
He laid out ambitious plans a year ago, outlining a complete transformation of the 110-year-old retailer.
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The retailer of electronic gadgets and funky trinkets has had a rough year, and the stock is down 51.5%.
The announcement followed a day of bad news for a handful of retailer stocks, many of which may be good value buys for the coming year, according to some analysts.
Like other merchants, the Friday after Thanksgiving is the single most important day of the year for online retailer Newegg.
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The teen retailer warned of a decline in same-store sales for the rest of the year.
Mr McMeikan also said that the retailer would probably raise prices slightly this year to help cover the increasing cost of ingredients.
The retailer also forecast that its full-year profits would be at the top end of expectations.
The company is pressing to a complete an ambitious turnaround that would transform nearly every aspect of the 110-year-old retailer.
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In the last year, Etsy, by far the largest global online crafts retailer, almost doubled the size of its policing staff to 16 people.
Retailer Next has forecast full-year profits at the top end of expectations as it reported a rise in sales in the run-up to Christmas.
The discount retailer is expected to match last year's profits of 86 cents a share.
Karimzad asserts that much of the year-to-date game sales decline at the retailer is due to a 20%-plus drop in the number of new games issued by video-game publishers.
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Aeropostale shares lost more than a quarter of their value this morning, after the teen-clothing retailer slashed its full-year outlook.
The measure is a key gauge of a retailer's expectations because it excludes stores that open or close during the year.
When an organised retailer opens nearby, small retailers typically lose about 23% of their sales in the first year, the report finds.
In an example of that, shares of international luxury-brand apparel and accessories retailer Michael Kors (KORS) is the top performer this year in the consumer cyclicals sector as tracked by Morningstar, with a 79% return.
Apple offered a one-year warranty, with an option to extend that cover under an AppleCare Protection Plan, but Italian law says that all goods have to come with a two-year warranty, and (critically) it is up to the retailer to inform customers of that fact.
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The Produce Palace, a retailer in Michigan, brought the first millennium-bug case to court earlier this year, suing the makers of its sales terminals because the terminals cannot handle credit cards that expire after 1999.
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