Retail Federation, 83% of stores are keeping their return policies the same this year while 13% are tightening them particularly when the returns are on electronics.
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Those selling the goods say upgrades to new models and more memory, particularly on laptops, is keeping stores humming this month.
Brighter lighting, improved displays and wider aisles of refurbished stores are succeeding in keeping shoppers in the store longer, according to America's Research Group president Britt Beemer.
This comes even after Gap tried to stay competitive during the Black Friday weekend, keeping many stores open on Thanksgiving Day and offering deep discounts at all three of its chains.
To attract commercial contractors, some of whom resent tripping over weekend amateurs in the orange stores, Nardelli is keeping some recently acquired construction supply firms (like White Cap Construction) as stand-alones operating under their own brand names.
Unless President Obama takes a firm stand, I expect that the U.S. will once again insist on keeping its smallpox stores.
That beat out the desire to "touch and feel merchandise" before buying as the number-one factor keeping shoppers in stores and off the computer.
That floated all boats, certainly filling the stores for Wal-Mart and Home Depot and keeping the car lots humming for dealers of vehicles from Ford and General Motors.
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It's then hard to imagine how the world's biggest retailers will wipe out the small mom-and-pop stores, which work to an organized chaos that few inventory-keeping systems can mimic.
She likes coffee shops and (the bakery aisle of) grocery stores, reading about other places but not necessarily traveling to them, keeping things clean, and stalking the Harvard Opportunes, her beloved college a cappella group.
As Irene approached my neighborhood in New York, people were helping evacuees get safely to shelters, carrying gallons of water up each other's stairs and generally keeping each other entertained in the insanely long lines at grocery stores.
Hundreds of iguanas sold in pet stores are being let loose in Los Angeles because their owners have grown tired of keeping them.
If Friday's order stands, stores that choose to sell the pill could place it on their regular aisles instead of keeping the drug behind the pharmacy counter.
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To boost returns, Park says, he'll focus on core brands, boost ad spending, pare the number of wine-stock-keeping units and reduce the low-margin private-brand business for European chain stores.
Collins added that he has several other PS2s on hold at other local stores, all of which are destined for online buyers -- aside from the one he's keeping for himself.
The hardest part for the serious shopper isn't keeping things for too long, she added, it's waiting for them to move into stores.
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