May 12,
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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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May 12,
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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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May 11,
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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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May 10,
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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 companys 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 didnt occur in
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May 10,
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Consumer sentiment edged higher in May, as declining gasoline prices appear to have offset slowing job-markets growth.
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