Digital and PC cameras are expected to be hot items at the upcoming Comdex trade show in Las Vegas.
There were precious few hot items to be tempted by and even consumer electronics failed to be a big draw.
Some offer just the basics such as cereal, toast, coffee and fresh fruit, while others cook up more elaborate spreads that include hot items like eggs, bacon, sausage, waffles or pancakes.
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.
Cydiodine tablets, said to be able to ease the effects of radiation, were hot ticket items and selling out at some pharmacies like hot cakes.
Indicative of The Year of Practical Living is the lack of hot gift items.
Price and value often dictate hot theft items, with multiple grocers saying the hottest theft items right now include Tide detergent, Gillette razors, infant formula, electronics, batteries, fragrance, and over-the-counter drugs, particularly Prilosec and Abreva.
Some items, like perishable goods or "hot" cyclical fashion items, carry the additional risk of becoming stale or obsolete before they can be sold.
With Amazon citing hot sales of items such as the Jakks EyeClops Bionic Eye and Nintendo Wii, maybe Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos should have described it as its geekiest, instead.
In its annual survey work that entailed hundreds of store checks and calls to over 1, 000 consumers, Deutsche Bank found that while consumer electronics were the hot item of the weekend, customers focused on smaller, cheaper items like game consoles, tablets and smaller television sets.
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Chang says he shaves six weeks off the time it takes to get items into stores by using labor in L.A. Sometimes he can get a hot item into stores within a week.
Polygon's other hot areas are China, where the market is moving from huge volume growth in the 1990s to more expensive items, and the Persian Gulf region, especially Dubai and Saudi Arabia.
The menu offers adventurous items like bone marrow tarts along with less edgy fare like borsht, oysters, juniper potato salad and hot toddies.
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