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Retail inflation declines to 9.86% in July
Indian Express
India's annual consumer price inflation (CPI) slowed slightly in July to 9.86 percent, helped by a drop in petrol prices at the pump, government data showed on Tuesday, but a drought in parts of the country pushed food prices higher. India has the ...
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Sale frenzy morphs into retail worry
Daily News & Analysis
Companies and retailers may get hurt as quality-conscious customers who may not be bargain-hunters, are likely to stay off markets during the sale duration. And bargain-hunters are likely to behave likewise after the discount season, leading to subdued ...
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retail therapy: Debenhams' city store gets a new owner
Yorkshire Post
Scott Nicol, vice president of real estate at Gatehouse Bank, said: "The property is in a particularly desirable area of the city centre, where both retail and real estate fundamentals are extremely strong. "Major shopping centres such as Leeds are ...
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Apple retail stores see 50K Genius Bar visits each day
Apple Insider
Apple retail stores see 50K Genius Bar visits each day. By AppleInsider Staff. Published: 02:11 PM EST (11:11 AM PST). Apple users are taking advantage of the company's Genius Bar support in droves, as more than 50000 customers utilize the retail ...
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Charter Hall Retail REIT profit crashes
The Australian
ONE of Australia's largest owners of neighbourhood shopping centres, Charter Hall Retail REIT, posted an 84 per cent fall in net profit to $9.7 million for the financial year 2012 as the value of its free-standing properties declined and lower sales ...
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RETAIL FAIL: Copycat T-shirts pulled off shelves
Herald Sun
Earlier today, major urban fashion chain Glue told news.com.au it was pulling a T-shirt with a remarkable resemblance to one designed by a young Sydney designer from every one of its stores. "It's just come a surprise to us," JXcess director Jason ...
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CFS Retail Trust profit hit by devaluations
The Australian
The company, which owns a $7 billion portfolio of shopping centres including Chadstone Shopping Centre in Melbourne, Chatswood Chase in Sydney and the DFO chain, recorded 2.4 per cent net operating income growth for the period across its portfolio.
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Apple said to set up direct sales and a retail store in Russia
CNET (blog)
Apple said to set up direct sales and a retail store in Russia. A report says that the tech giant just registered a company called Apple Rus, prompting renewed speculation that direct sales and a retail store could be coming to Russia soon. Dara Kerr ...
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Retail, Big Pharma, Regional Banks And REITs Are September's Best Bets
Seeking Alpha
Knowing the seasonal ebb and flow of markets, sectors, industries and stocks can improve the timing of your entry and exit points and help you determine over and underweight. This is especially useful during periods when broader averages have a ...
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STOCKS NEWS SINGAPORE-OCBC prefers office to retail REITs
Reuters
With Singapore real-estate investment trusts (REIT) outperforming the broader market this year, OCBC Investment Research said investors should switch to office REITs instead of domestic retail ones. The FT ST Real Estate Investment Trust Index has ...
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Retailers gear up for 'lemon law'
TODAYonline
SINGAPORE - From updating the terms of their after-sale policies to sending staff for training to deal with difficult customers, retailers here are gearing up for a new consumer protection law - also known as a "lemon law" - which takes effect from ...
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KKR buys into Novo, bets on China youth apparel market
Reuters
China's retail sales continue to pull back, but KKR sees its investment in Novo as a long-term bet, allowing the retailer to triple its stores in China and lock in lower rents now through 10-year contracts, a person familiar with the matter told ...
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White House Black Market to open in Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem Journal
White House Black Market, an upscale retailer of women's clothing, plans to open a store in Thruway Shopping Center, while outdoor-equipment retailer Gander Mountain is going into the former Circuit City building on Hanes Mall Boulevard. The Circuit ...
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Benderson wins approval for Sarasota retail project
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
SARASOTA - A mailer sent last week to thousands of city residents foretold a bleak future for one of the city's busiest intersections: Neighbors could be crowded out by a tacky and monolithic shopping center, a sterile parking lot. In big and bold ...
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Retailers cash in on mobile payments
gulfnews.com
Los Angeles: With more shoppers wielding smartphones instead of credit cards and cash to pay for purchases, some of the US's largest retailers and restaurants are trying to wrest control of the fast-emerging mobile-payment industry away from technology ...
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Retail Growth Slows for July
The Moscow Times
"The retail sales figure was mainly hit via a food channel and rebounding food prices," said Dmitry Polevoy, chief economist at ING Russia in a note to investors Monday. Food sales slowed to 1.3 percent year-on-year growth in July from 4 percent year ...
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Use of Retail Medical Clinics Continues to Grow
Biomed Middle East
Researchers found that visits to retail medical clinics increased four-fold from 2007 to 2009, with the proportion of patients over age 65 growing from 8 percent to 19 percent of all visits during this period. More than 44 percent of visits to the ...
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Trucking Stocks Offer Bet on US Consumers for Holidays
Bloomberg
"Everyone associates retail stocks with the holiday season, but trucking companies may be a smarter play for a positive surprise from the consumer," Ablin said. Truckers are "an interesting" opportunity because their shares have trailed the market ...
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Retailers gear up for "lemon law"
Channel News Asia
Among them was retail manager Chris Tan, who said: "They gave a lot of practical examples where customers might be difficult to handle, or customers might demand things in a different manner, so how are we going to deal with the customers." Challenger ...
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