Not only was it the top consumer item searched for, it was the time item overall, beating out the tragic Japanese earthquake and even Kim Kardashian.
If traffic shoots up on a particular item, it might be worth checking it out.
No consumer is going to purchase an imported item if it decreases their consumption possibilities.
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"When a restaurant serves you an item, it's meant to be consumed at one sitting, " he said.
Once the licensee purchases an item, it is considered "royalty free, " meaning they can usually do whatever they want with it.
Try buying some new electronics item when it first comes out.
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By contrast, online retailer Lands' End will pay for the shipping on a replacement order, but if you don't want to replace the item, it won't refund your original purchase.
Beyond the heartbreak of spending that much on one item, it can only be worn once, and you need to find space to store it in your 400 sq ft apartment.
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Fire up a browser, go to eBay to list a new item and it can take as many as 64 decisions, 77 clicks, and 30 to 60 minutes to get the job done.
The writ lodged at the High Court says it happened after she dropped the item and retrieved it from under a display.
The merchandising team has been doing its job so well for so long that it can just look at an item and know it's going to be a winner with SkyMall's audience, O'Donnell said.
Sometimes a tweet goes viral not because of who said it, but the user said just the right thing (and I would privately note that no matter who said it, someone of the right influence picked up on the hot viral item and allowed it to spread).
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Then when an item is selected it pops in a strangely satisfying way before fading out.
Severance is a good negotiating item, because it costs the employer nothing up front.
The law clearly prohibits someone from buying a patented item, copying it, and selling it, without permission.
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If the customer defaults, the pawn broker keeps the item and sells it to satisfy the loan balance.
Otherwise, each country can veto any item from which it loses money, and has to be bought off.
And the biggest line item in their IT budgets is for database software.
If you take out an item and put it back, you might be charged, though most hotels give a grace period of about 40 seconds.
If a customer likes 1 of the 400 sofas on Davidow's floor, he removes a tag from the item and scans it at a computer to see if it's in stock.
CustomMade plans to release a mobile app that will let people to take a photo of an item and send it to CustomMade to request that something similar be made for them.
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The long lead-time for the 10-inch, Windows 7 tablet means that Dell will likely miss the opportunity to sell the device as a back-to-school item, though it would make the important holiday season.
USAppliance: This online store will not only deliver heavy appliances such as refrigerators and dishwashers to your home, but its delivery people will even unpack the item and plug it in for you.
Thankfully, recommendations can be culled using the new Dash's rating system -- thumbing the X button on the recommendation page allows you to pin an item, dismiss it or rate it out of five stars.
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And be forewarned: If the charity does sell the item within two years, it must report the sale to the IRS, which might then raise questions about whether the charity really intended to use the item and whether the value you put on it was too high.
It's not that easy to say for sure, but the Item Club economists suggest it might be explained by sectoral changes in employment.
The complexity grows from there, but muuver takes over and does the rest, meaning that it takes your post about the item you liked or disliked, and adds it to a page that only displays posts other users have made about that same item.
Alderman challenged the constitutionality of the law, since it criminalized his possession of an item within a single state where it was legal, but the Ninth Circuit rejected that challenge, citing a seemingly analogous 1977 Supreme Court decision called Scarborough upholding a federal law banning felons from owning handguns.
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