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Still, the deepest discounting will likely come from retailers that sell electronics, books and toys, where competition from online vendors is fierce. Pricing wars have already erupted, with Walmart going head-to-head with Amazon. The two chopped prices on hot new hard-cover releases to less than $10 apiece for shoppers who preordered books on their websites. Similar price battles have been launched in toys and electronics, with Walmart's chief merchandising officer, John Fleming, proclaiming, "We're going to be the price leader for this holiday season." Best Buy's executive vice president of customer operating groups, Mike...
...effort to sell its Swedish subsidiary Saab has fallen apart, jeopardizing the division's future, which had grown increasingly tenuous over the years as its American owner slid into insolvency and bankruptcy. Saab was tentatively scheduled to begin operating as an independent company starting Jan. 1, 2009, once GM's sale to Koenigsegg Group AB, a Swedish maker of exotic vehicles, had closed. (See pictures: "GM's Eight Great Hopes...
...June, GM announced that it would sell or eliminate four of its brands, including Pontiac, Saab, Hummer and Saturn. "We've been very clear that those brands were going to be sold or shut down," said a GM official, who asked not to be identified. "The expectation is that if you don't sell it, you close...
...also set a precedent of sorts last month when it announced that it would shut down the Saturn brand completely after a deal to sell it to the Penske Automotive Group also fell apart at the last minute. GM has stopped building Pontiacs, and Hummer is in the process of being sold to a Chinese manufacturer of heavy equipment...
...just the exhibitionists at the exhibition, though there are plenty of them, goose-pimpled in the chilly air. It's the way that sex, the perennial tool for advertisers seeking to sell products, has been commoditized into a must-have range of products. Nowadays, keeping up with the Joneses might mean flaunting specialist furniture such as a ?2,500 ($4,130) Stretching Bed from Dungeon Equipment or a ?115 ($190) Funswing, which looks like a cross between a hammock and a baby bouncer and could be mistaken for a comfortable perch for watching TV if the brochure didn't deploy...