Given the capital investment required to open a new store, a bad location can be a very costly mistake.

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Among other changes, the renovation will convert a conference room with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the ocean into fitness center, upgrade the resort's Italian and steak-and-seafood restaurants with Hawaiian fare, and open a new surf-themed store in the lobby.

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Every time you open a new credit card account, the store is requesting your credit report.

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The site will be marketed next February and a new store could open by 2016, the council said.

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The Large Scale Retail Location Law requires two-thirds support of local residents for a chain store to open a new location.

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It helps ease into a new career and when they get a little busier they open their own store online or even with a store front.

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The 90-store chain plans to open a new online service this summer that lets consumers create their own podcasts--audio and video shows designed to be downloaded onto a computer or portable media player--using a catalog of some 6, 000 songs, which Tower will provide free of charge.

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So if you want to open a couple of new cards, be choosy, selecting major credit cards over single-store cards, and apply three or six months apart.

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Tom Ford International now encompasses 19 freestanding stores in 17 countries, with a new flagship store recently opened in Beijing and the first London store set to open in the fall.

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Large open spaces existed between the displays, seemingly awaiting the new wider aisles and stores-within-a-store layout that Johnson says will come.

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