Investors mulling retail stocks have well-established metrics to look at, among them inventory turnover (cost of sales divided by inventory), same-store-sales growth (the change in sales for stores open at least one year) and sales per square foot.
Finding out what the future holds in store for you is great for customers. (I guess.) But 23andMe getting to compile a vast database of genetic material from its customers is a wee bit disturbing.
It is expected to release an AppleTV SDK for developers at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) (most likely in early June) for a new TV oriented App Store.
Although some women do indeed prefer an in-store (human) professional when looking for a new lineup of cosmetics to try, those independent ladies who'd rather take things solo just might prefer this method.
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One assumes the decision-makers were ready to lose Muslim customers (bad news for store managers in Detroit) in exchange for Christian goodwill.
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After the holiday shipping cutoff, make a big push across all marketing channels for ecards and gift cards (in store).
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How did people shop for them (online, mobile, in-store)?
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Cecelia said she had no idea what would be in store this weekend for the chic hotel (Robert Plant and Johnny Depp are regulars).
In conjunction with the iMSO app (available for download from the Apple App Store) and Apple's intuitive multitouch user interfaces, brilliant displays, and computation power, the iMSO-104 delivers the easiest, most intuitive scope solution on the market.
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R-LINK also delivers comprehensive connectivity for automotive services and applications in an AppStore (R-LINK Store).
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She also does Derian's signature scraggly geraniums (exclusively for him), which have become a hit in the store.
Though young (he is just 38) he has been a central player in the crisis thanks to his extensive contacts in the financial world and closeness to Mr Bernanke, who puts great store in Mr Warsh's feel for politics and markets (see our recent blog post).
Store enough kilowatt-hours for 40 miles in a battery (the Volt's planned range) and you capture daily driving for most people.
Whatever the case, the patrons who unknowingly trickled in for their last bagels (untoasted and unsliced, of course, per store policy) came from near and far.
So, no, the cluttered convention halls of CES 2013 won't necessarily herald the arrival of five- (or even eight-) core CPUs, but we could be in store for tabs outfitted with faster quad-core chips.
The world's fourth-biggest retailer smashed analysts' expectations on Tuesday when it said that its like-for-like sales (called same-store sales in the U.S.), which don't include new store openings, rose 4.9% in the six weeks to Jan. 9.
Newcastle's planning blueprint also provided for a small food store (about 11, 000 sq ft) in Walkergate.
We all saw the crazies camped out at the likes of Best Buy (BBY) and Wal-Mart (WMT), for days, to be one of the first in-store and reap the Black Friday deals.
The best guess still sees the 30th Anniversary release hitting store shelves in time for the holidays (likely after Jaws, which is scheduled for release August 14th), when we can relive our childhoods in proper 1080p HD at last.
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We're bringing the video back home to Engadget (and as a free download here, in the iTunes Store, or the Zune Marketplace) for your viewing pleasure.
The app is available now for free in the App Store (no word on if it'll ever come to other platforms), and we've also got a gallery of screenshots at the ready below.
For natural gas, consider opportunities in technologies for gas-to-liquids (GTL), and ways to more efficiently and compactly store gas.
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Jacott is a one-man study in self-justifying paralysis (the movie's funniest scene is his quivering interview for a video-store job).
In the early 1980s, when Mattis and Hochberg first began their acquisitions, the market for fine-art photographs (as opposed to old photos you might find in an antique store) was barely a decade old.
According to CNET, at least one Apple store (the Stockton Street branch in San Francisco) is offering a free upgrade to a fourth-gen iPad for those that picked up the 9.7-inch tablet in the last month.
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As part of the Open Screen Project, which should be getting Adobe Flash onto many new platforms, Adobe, NVIDIA and Broadcom are all hard at work getting GPU acceleration to do what it ought for Flash Player, with improvements in store for everything from Tegra MIDs to Broadcom Crystal HD netbooks (like HP's new Mini 110XP, pictured) to tablets and beyond.
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Netflix, for instance, just arrived in the Windows Store, and we expect plenty more soon (including our own app).
As Malkin said, Value Retail has married Freeport, Maine (famous for its L.L Bean Store and hundreds of other outlet stores) with locations in Europe like Disneyland Paris.
But the real selling point of the E1 is its role in HTC's new e-commerce strategy in China: while you can get hold of one at an authorized HTC store, HTC's Chinese "eShop" throws in custom options for the built-in storage (8 or 16GB), main camera (five or eight megapixels, both with only 720p video capture) and one of the six body colors plus patterns.
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