Zagg -- you know, the company behind InvisibleShield -- is currently sporting a 50% off sale for many items on its website!
But prices for many everyday items are rising even faster--and that's making everyone's wallet feel a little thinner.
The bad news is that prices for many everyday items had already been ticking up, according to data from December 2004 and December 2007 collected by the U.S. Department of Labor.
This was true for a great many items so, when possible, manufacturers would build operations as close to the final market as possible.
Amazon, the world's biggest online retailer which relies on the postal service for many of its deliveries, can simply ship items a day or two later if it is overwhelmed.
In a test of creativity, researchers asked 145 students to think of as many unusual uses as possible for such common items as a brick or toothpick, then divided them randomly into four groups.
Many of the descriptions of items up for auction include personal messages from ordinary fans donating their own sports memorabilia.
For many owners of artwork or decorative collectibles, scenario planning works well for individual or a small number of items.
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Gold thinks most people simply don't think of RadioShack as a true heavy-duty consumer electronics retailer any more, especially when so many private-label items makes it tougher for customers to know exactly what they're getting, compared with buying a Sony or Toshiba .
Christie's catalog for its Oct. 29 antiquities auction in London typically listed many items with no provenance at all.
The company, which has only been around for about three years, started off not offering many high ticket items.
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Many items, like the Noguchi-designed set for "Errand Into the Maze, " would have been replaced over time due to normal wear and tear.
Expeditors analyzed the tariffs owed and documents required for the import of the items, which were sourced from many countries, each with different trade agreements.
Many consumers, in the market for big-ticket electronic items, shop Best Buy stores and then use the information and advice received to make informed on-line purchases at lower prices from retailers with less overhead than Best Buy.
And many of these may eventually become every-day items for the rest of us.
With consumers in the U.S. and Europe limiting their spending on non-essential items, maintaining an attractive price point is crucial for many consumer-facing businesses like jewelry makers.
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One of the many items to augment a personal balance sheet is a reserve for grants to charities.
Many items sold through Tmall generate a much higher take rate for Taobao.
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But his positions on many other items are not, and I worry that support for Johnson would mean default support for a lot of other policies I disagree with.
REI's Web site, launched in 1996, is the Internet's largest store for outdoor gear and clothing, with 30, 000 pages of items, many with multiple views of the products.
REI's Web site, launched in 1996, is now the Internet's largest store for outdoor gear and clothing, with 30, 000 pages of items, many with multiple views of the products.
Its intimidating exterior hides an 8-gigabyte hard drive, eliminating the need for those pesky little memory cartridges that are among the many secondary but totally necessary items that nickel-and-dime PlayStation owners.
In its city stores Home Depot suddenly found demands for shorter ladders, smaller grills, and smaller cans of paint as well as many other items that apartment dwellers prefer.
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But like many toy stores, it also had its limits - like the difficulty of stocking all the hot items (especially games) that have become the most sought-after gifts for many older children.
For the first time the Army, which runs Arlington National Cemetery, is collecting many of the items left on the graves, cataloging them according to what grave they were left on and storing them for posterity.
In many instances, they've simply provided a logistical platform for those who have lost something or need items or help.
Found in the pages of many of their books, Koch and Clarke have collected bygone bookmarks and other yellowing items used for the same purpose, from receipts to menus and shopping lists.
The closing of borders would deny access to many items made abroad that are needed during a pandemic, including masks and gloves, electrical circuits for ventilators and communications gear and certain pharmaceuticals and their precursors.
"When you break down von Furstenberg's collection piece by piece, you actually discover many tweed items, " says Gretta Monahan, owner of Boston-based Gretta Luxe, style expert for The Rachael Ray Show and an on-air commentator on the Bravo series Tim Gunn's Guide to Style.
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