In their paper Consumer City, Ed Glaeser, Jed Kolko, and Albert Saiz argue that cities lost their manufacturing bases when they lost the transportation cost advantage.
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Before Peretti came to New York she expected to find a secular and consumer-driven city.
After struggling to turn a profit for the past year and a half, troubled consumer electronics retailer Circuit City filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday.
CarMax, the used-car dealer owned by Circuit City, the consumer electronics chain, has a tracking stock.
They are for the unwashed masses, not for the important people who forced this anti-consumer DRM onto the Sim City team.
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Her post-graduation hopes for a big-city career marketing consumer products were dashed.
My approach reflected years of experience within Citi, where I wore numerous hats, from running our consumer bank in New York City to leading human resources.
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That morning, the city was celebrating Consumer Thanksgiving Day.
Integris Health, a 14-hospital system in Oklahoma City, has a Consumer Price Line number that allows patients to learn what the out-of-pocket costs will be for their procedures.
Traders from neighbouring African countries pour into the city markets to buy basic consumer goods that are either dear or unavailable at home.
Hardest hit, say analysts, are those brands that haven't built up nationally by expanding into second- and third-tier cities developed provincial capitals and prefecture or country-level city capitals where consumer demand is still strong.
The city's Department of Consumer Affairs began stepping up enforcement of the law last year, when it issued 580 gender-pricing violations to businesses, more than double the 212 doled out the year before.
Between fiscal years 2010 and 2012, the city's Department of Consumer Affairs increased inspections by 66%, increased violations issued by 153%, and increased revenue from fines by 102%, according to Mr. de Blasio's report.
U.S. economic reports due for release Friday include durable goods orders, personal income and outlays, the Chicago Fed national activity index, the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey, and the Kansas City Fed manufacturing survey.
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As for the Biennale, organized by the Dallas Contemporary museum, the exhibit at the downtown Neiman Marcus includes neon sculptures by Ms. Fleury that wink at consumer culture and brash style in a city where "live large" is a motto.
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The survey by the city's Department of Consumer Affairs looked at the Chinese, Ecuadorian and Mexican communities and also found that barriers to having accounts included having to maintain minimum balances as well as confusion over what documentation would be needed to open an account.
The consumer electronics company has been struggling to survive a consumer recession that has already sent rival Circuit City into liquidation.
In October, 3D-printing startup Shapeways opened its New York production facility in Long Island City, Queens, the biggest consumer-focused 3D printing factory in the world.
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But it will take more than a handful of firms to change the British consumer mentality, says Vincent-Wayne Mitchell, professor of consumer marketing at the Cass Business School, City University London.
If the party is to keep the peace in cities and if it is to continue to attract migrants in sufficient numbers, it needs to find ways to turn them into full-fledged city-dwellers, with the consumer power to match.
Antoinette McKeown, the chief executive of the NI Consumer Council told MPs that both George Best Belfast City Airport and Belfast International were "private concerns that don't take money from the public purse".
Final consumption expenditures of households include outlays for purchasing consumer goods and services from all trading enterprises and city markets, non-organised trade (street vendors), from public service, passenger transport, communications establishments, hotels, commercial Institutions of culture, health care and education.
While it was at Radio City Music Hall, it felt like a Consumer Electronics Show demo writ very large.
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So Walmex can tinker with, say, the price of shampoo in one Mexico City store and get an instant read on the consumer response.
Of course, Vegas is the city of the hard sell, especially this week with consumer electronics companies touting their products alongside adult entertainers in skimpy dresses and high heels at the nearby Adult Entertainment Expo.
Spectacular advances in the production of consumer durables, electric power, new appliances, suburban housing, and city skyscrapers highlighted the decade.
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While the cost of EPR would be built into the cost of consumer products, the legislation would eliminate the fee consumers currently pay for city- or county-provided recycling.
While would-be merchants would like to see more options, the City Council has no plans to take up the issue, said City Councilman Daniel Garodnick, chairman of the council's Consumer Affairs Committee.
The plaintiffs sued for deceptive acts and practices under the federal Consumer Protection Act, New York's General Business Law and New York City's Administrative Code, charging that McDonald's negligently sold food high in cholesterol and fat, and failed to warn about the dangers.
The move is part of a wider drive to promote broadcast tourism in the city, encourage visits to its many TV and film locations and increase consumer spending ahead of the opening of the Westfield Shopping Centre on 5 November 2015.
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