Nike (NYSE:NKE), Target (NYSE:TGT), Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) and TJ Maxx (NYSE:TJX) still look good.

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In recent years, it has tried everything from bringing in high tech industry to tax incentives for working class jobs like a TJ Maxx distribution center.

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Having a TJ Maxx down the street is also nice.

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Meanwhile discounters like TJ Maxx and Costco showed strong growth.

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Hackers managed to access information from its TJ Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods shops in the US and Puerto Rico, Bob's Stores in the US, and Winners and HomeSense shops in Canada.

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This year is on track to become the worst of all time for private data breaches, including the largest single consumer-information theft in history, perpetrated against retailer TJX, owner of TJ Maxx and Marshall's.

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More recently, Heymann served as prosecutor in the case of a group of hackers involved in the unprecedented theft of hundreds of millions of credit card numbers from the networks of companies including TJ Maxx and Heartland Payment Systems.

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This year is on track to become the worst of all time for private data breaches, including the largest single consumer-information theft in history, perpetrated against retailer TJX (nyse: TJX - news - people ), owner of TJ Maxx and Marshall's.

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And corporate breaches spill millions of customers' credit card information into the black market: A breach in January at the retailer TJ Maxx revealed the private financial data of more than 46 million customers, while Certegy Credit Systems, a branch of Fidelity National Information Services, announced last week that a former employee had stolen and sold customers' data, exposing as many as 2.3 million accounts.

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And corporate breaches spill millions of customers' credit card information into the black market: A breach in January at the retailer TJ Maxx (nyse: TJX - news - people ) revealed the private financial data of more than 46 million customers, while Certegy Credit Systems, a branch of Fidelity National Information Services, announced last week that a former employee had stolen and sold customers' data, exposing as many as 2.3 million accounts.

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