In retailing, employers use the 4-day-a-week ploy to skirt healthcare and allied employee benefits.
My one valuation exception is Amazon because it is a creative destruction game changer in retailing.
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Indeed, it is in retailing that the problems of recruitment are most acute, and about to become worse.
So some of the weakness in retailing is double-counting the weakness in housing.
Its distribution system, fine-tuned over decades by Sam Walton, is unequaled in retailing.
Each of my parents owned a small local retail business, and I was in retailing myself for over a decade.
You may think nothing much happens in retailing at this time of year, and certainly the 4th is no Memorial Day.
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Chris Alden, of the South African Institute of International Affairs, says the Chinese are beginning to have a big influence in retailing.
Whereas barter is rife in manufacturing, cash has replaced credit in retailing.
In retailing, location proximity makes a big difference and 70% of the American population lives within 10 miles of a Best Buy store.
The detail of Sainsbury's better-than-average trading performance for the 14 weeks to 5 January confirm the big trends in retailing and consumer spending.
Consider: Sam Walton figured out how to cut out the middleman in retailing with warehouses linked to his big boxes using ground transportation.
Especially in retailing, where it is the cashiers and department employees who are the only ones who usually come into contact with the shopper.
In this new climate, there is much greater variability of performance, according to Ross Davies, a specialist in retailing at Oxford University's Templeton College.
Losing it would hurt, of course, but it would not cripple a local economy that has been adding jobs in retailing, distribution and computing.
With shoes one of the hottest classifications in retailing, especially with younger people, the entire store benefits from a robust and dynamic shoe department.
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New projects are lacking too: in retailing, for example, where supermarket outlets have a mere 1% market share, compared with 18% and rising in Poland.
At both the manufacturer level and in retailing, success belongs to those businesses which curate with an intense eagle-eye that puts customer interests firmly in first place.
New Delhi says it wants to encourage more foreign investment in retailing and that the sourcing requirement is a reasonable condition that will help develop domestic industries.
In retailing , a law that made it almost impossible for big shops to set up without the permission of their would-be competitors has been progressively relaxed.
First, America has made particularly big productivity strides in retailing, where big firms such as Wal-Mart have been able to open sprawling warehouses and superstores around the country.
"It's a quite standard procedure in retailing, " said the spokeswoman.
Instead of including these payments as a cost in the income statement, Coke spread out the cost over a longer period, classifying it as an investment in retailing assets.
Fastcompany.com, picking up on a blog post from the trends consultancy PSFK, reports today on a stealth initiative by Starbucks that raises some interesting questions about authenticity in retailing.
It has the smallest service sector by employment share of any big rich economy, thanks to archaic rules in retailing and many professions, that block the creation of new industries and jobs.
The difference is that in retailing, they're using a very simple, physically flat bit of circuitry that's put into clothes and other items, and which is then energized and detected by a transmitter.
Other areas of high-tech are premised less on breakthrough innovations and more on the application of technology to massive new markets in retailing, advertising, media, financial services, education, publishing, communications, fashion and music.
Land-use restrictions are a problem in retailing, too.
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Halifax chairman Lord Stevenson of Coddenham sale Mr Dunstone had "a very strong media and retailing background" and was "a great fit for an organisation like ours which sees its future in retailing and e-tailng".
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