Word: retailers
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...reducing the volume of imports from abroad, trade restrictions dramatically diminish the range of goods from which consumers can choose. Moreover, protectionism accelerates domestic inflation by forcing consumers to buy higher priced domestic goods instead of cheaper foreign products. A 1978 survey sponsored by retail organizations found that goods imported from Asia and Latin American cost, on the average, 16 per cent less than their American counterparts. Lower income groups then, the major consumers of these cheaper imported goods, suffer the most from the protectionist policies...
...approval, the planning board answered some of the community's fears by cutting the maximum allowable retail space by about one quarter. As approved, the Carpenter development would have about 65,000 sq. feet for shops and about 25,000 sq. feet for restaurants and "entertainment facilities"--an area three times the size of the Galeria and double the floor space of the Garage...
Depending on whom you believe, business in the Square will either be fatally hurt or boosted by the Carpenter complex. James A. Argeros general manager of the Harvard Cooperative Society, says "a substantial amount of retail space would adversely affect our business...
Demand remains impressively strong, as the latest retail sales results show. In September purchases by consumers rose by a very vigorous 2.2%, which was nearly twice the increase that had occurred in any previous month this year. Moreover, revised Government figures show that spending in August climbed by an astonishing 3.1%, which works out to an annual rate...
Harvard does not purchase Red Coach lettuce, Philip R. Bauer, a food buyer for University Food Services, said, adding the brand is for retail, not for institutional...