This fall the chain has opened outlets of upscale cosmetics purveyor Sephora in its stores.
You can blame Republicans who won't pass a budget, or Democrats who spend every single cent of tax money that comes in during the booms, borrow some more and then act all surprised when revenues, in a totally unprecedented, inexplicable and unforeseeable chain of events, fall during a recession.
Once its biggest competition Circuit City fell a malaise seemed to fall over the chain.
He also highlighted supermarket chain Morrisons, which on Monday reported a fall in sales in December.
And they simple don't know how the ECB would react - whether it would do something that central banks are never supposed to do, which is provide unsecured loans, or whether it would allow the bank to fall over, and risk a chain reaction of collapsing banks.
It was in July last year that Bangkok devalued the baht, setting off a chain reaction that has Southeast Asian currencies in free fall.
Just this week we've seen High Street favourite Jessops fall into administration, and analysts expect more chain retailers to suffer financial difficulty this year.
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The fall, the first for the British supermarket chain in 18 years, came after weak sales in Europe and Asia and heavy investment at home.
This is accounted for by increasing raw material costs, currency movements (particularly the pound's fall against the euro), bottlenecks in the supply chain and construction in progressively more challenging sites.
Sports fashion retailer JD Sports has announced a sharp fall in profits due to losses at its newly-acquired Blacks Leisure chain and the cost of moving warehouses.
On a late Los Angeles afternoon last fall, up a steep and winding road in lower Benedict Canyon, a covered chain-link fence and a dense covering of trees and shrubs blocked most views of the mansion of Mr. Pritzker, part of the Chicago real-estate family and a billionaire co-founder of private-equity firm the Pritzker Group.
At the other end of the production chain, the value of retail sales slipped by 0.2% in October, after a fall of 0.8% the month before.
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