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Left behind on e-commerce, Costco hastens to catch up

By Aggregated Content in on May 13, 2012 from http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z6475034466&z=1250249030 SEATTLE Its a curiosity of how the Internet works that a shopper using a search engine to find a flat-screen TV probably will not turn up Costco Wholesale, a major television vendor and the countrys largest retailer after Walmart. Costco.com is not built to attract online hits, but it does decent business about $2 billion in sales a year. It does so by offering everything from caskets to an 18.88-carat diamond, while attracting customers even more affluent than the average shopper at its warehouses.Now the chain, based in Issaquah, less than 20 miles from the offices of online Bigfoot

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Costco Hastens to Catch Up in Ecommerce

By Aggregated Content in Internet on May 13, 2012 from http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/05/13/2143257/left-behind-on-e-commerce-costco.html?storylink=rss_xml

It's a curiosity of how the Internet works that a shopper using a search engine to find a flat-screen TV probably will not turn up Costco Wholesale, a major television vendor and the countrys largest retailer after Walmart.

Costco.com is not built to attract online hits, but it does decent business about $2 billion in sales a year. It does so by offering everything from caskets to an 18.88-carat diamond, while attracting customers even more affluent than the average shopper at its warehouses.

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Clarence ‘Clancy' Ridley, 69, lawyer and former chairman of Haverty's

By Aggregated Content in on May 12, 2012 from http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z6473632339&z=1250249030 Clancy Ridley wore two notable hats as one of Atlantas top businessmen -- as chairman of Havertys furniture stores and as a senior partner with the King & Spalding law firm. L. Phillip Humann of Atlanta, who followed Mr. Ridley as chairman of Havertys, said his predecessor deserves a share of the credit for the companys traversing the treacherous currents that inundated other furniture merchandisers during the past decade. Remember that Clancy was on our board of directors for 20 years before he became chairman for a decade, so he came to that high position really knowing our business,

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Dorel Net Falls 6.4 Percent; Home Furnishings Profit Down 25.3 Percent

By Aggregated Content in on May 11, 2012 from http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z6469705659&z=1250249029 MONTREAL-In a rough start to its fiscal year, Dorel Industries posted a 6.4 percent decline in net income in the first quarter, to $29.2 million. This included a 25.3 percent plummet in operating profit in the company€™s home furnishings segment, to $5.8 million. Home furnishings revenues were off 5.1 percent to $130.7 million in the quarter, which ended on March 31. A Dorel statement attributed this to reductions in sales of ready-to-assemble and folding furniture, along with the fact that the first quarter of last year saw strong results in shipments of initial customer rollouts, which didn€™t occur in

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Economic Report: Consumer sentiment in May at post-recession high

By Aggregated Content in on May 11, 2012 from http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z6467997324&z=1250249030 Consumer sentiment edged higher in May, as declining gasoline prices appear to have offset slowing job-markets growth.

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