Some customers likely balk at the relatively high cost of shipping perishables overnight or heavy items like jars of jam when many online retailers are offering free shipping.

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The problem with the F2P model is of course that it is open to quite liberal exploitation, and many developers and publishers seem to favour heavy game play altering items over vanity items.

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Rubbermaid is now planning a product "summit" with Carrefour in the Netherlands to display such commercial Rubbermaid products as heavy-duty trash cans and other items sold only in North America.

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Employees in many of the affected companies moved fixturing and other hard to replace and expensive items to higher floors when possible but heavy equipment could not be moved to higher ground.

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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 .

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China restricts the trade of art and other prized historical items, banning the export of what the government labels as "cultural relics, " and places heavy import taxes on collectors who bring art to the country.

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