The big chains' distribution systems, so effective in stocking superstores in malls, are of little advantage in cyberspace.
Still, there is good news for people whose credit scores are about as appealing as a lump of coal in a stocking on Christmas morning.
Not being a gadget lover, the idea of a gizmo-fuelled Christmas normally fills me with horror but this year I am hoping that Santa might leave a new mobile phone in my stocking.
If a Storm is high on your Christmas list you might just want to plan a few extra good deeds on your schedule to boost your placement on the "nice" list -- nobody wants a 7100i in their stocking.
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But this would be a good way in these last few days just to push to make sure -- because you look over in those bins and you just sort of think, you know, the little kids, great, but, you know, if you're 11, you're still waiting for Santa, and you still want to make sure that they have something in the stocking.
At the time of the sale, Cengage profits were suffering, according to Bloomberg, because of a decrease in college, career and professional school enrollment and lower inventory stocking in bookstores and at online retailers.
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In essence, this means that any de-stocking phase in China started from a higher level than previously thought.
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Then you couldn't catch falling government bond prices in a fishnet stocking.
To a young boy relishing the beautifully engraved stock certificate that showed up in a Christmas stocking, there was something almost magical about the transaction.
He said he'd rather work in the supermarket stocking shelves.
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As she told my sons about Christmas when she was a little girl, her eyes lit up when she talked of the joy of finding an orange in her Christmas stocking.
When asked in those quiet moments before interviews or after press conferences how things were going with solving the airport's problems, Mr Jones would get that look in his eyes of a boy who once got a model airplane in his Christmas stocking.
It helps explain why China has been in a de-stocking phase, but the country is likely to remain price-sensitive in its purchases, Virga said.
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For Mr. Forsythe's "Rearray, " the choreographer costumed Ms. Guillem in sleek slacks, a trim top and stocking feet, all in gray-greens, with her hair fixed in a neat, low chignon.
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Walmart is the largest purveyor of food in the country, stocking mostly staples.
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Everything you see in the gallery below will be available between this month and the end of the year -- and we definitely see a few promising stocking stuffers in the mix.
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Much of that feeble growth will come from a turnaround in the inventory cycle as companies stop de-stocking at the scary rate that exacerbated the recession in 2009.
People in Port Hedland have been stocking up on essentials following warnings to take shelter.
Beneath it too, sweating like a trooper in a thick body-stocking of foam rubber, was Ben Chapman.
"As a first step world leaders should formally commit themselves to reducing inequality to the levels seen in 1990, " Ms Stocking said.
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Van der Hoeven plans to transfer some of that know-how to supplying better in-store meals and stocking his stores' delis with more gourmet offerings.
He told peers a lot of food waste was caused by "careless" shopping and food stocking, both in domestic households and the commercial and catering trades.
The business started shifting away from stocking streams to stocking store shelves in the 1970s, when Giant Food, a Landover, Md. grocery chain now owned by the Dutch group Royal Ahold, started buying its fillets.
The problem is that the fish that formed the base of the hatchery brood stock used to replenish salmon in Maine's rivers came from the Penobscot River until 1992, when state officials began a river-specific stocking program that placed descendents only in rivers their stock came from.
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Later, we dived the stromatolites at Lee Stocking Island, also in the Bahamas.
They're stocking the converter boxes in stores like Best Buy, and they insist they want customers to know about the coupon program.
She's been known to sew buttons, remove stains and even catch you on the way out the door to stop a stocking's run in its tracks with a dab of clear nail polish.
Combined with nylon (a Du Pont invention from 1939), Spandex allowed the production of tights with no garter or stocking belt, which in turn meant designers like Mary Quant could take the hemline of the skirt way up.
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