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...Brent Rystrom, analyst at Feltl & Co., "and started selling more non-discretionary consumable products like food and health and beauty items." The store now sells Hormel sausages and Green Giant frozen vegetables, and over 1,200 of its stores now have refrigeration units. Now, in anticipation of an economic uptick, Rystrom is seeing Dollar Tree shift back to more discretionary items like decorations and toys, which tend to offer higher margins...
...course, a broad term that covers a range of behavior, including, in its most extreme form, homicide. According to Larry Barton, a professor of management and president of the American College in Bryn Mawr, Penn., nonfatal workplace assaults and threats of assaults, have indeed seen a recent uptick - due in part to stress and depression caused by the weak economy. These are the same reasons that researchers think led to the troubling rise in workplace suicides in 2008, which jumped 28% from the year before...
...concessions by the regime, predicts that the influence of students will rise sharply this month to a level that will rival that of Khamenei's. "That doesn't mean they're going to rule the day," says Mesquita. "But it does mean we will see a substantial uptick in action by students and dissidents and increasing efforts by Khamenei and others perceived as hard-liners to find some pragmatic ways to accommodate or co-opt them...
...fact, the poll did show that where there has been an uptick is in the most - kind of the local volunteering, right around your home with your local school...
...Bo”ston “Yo”gurt) in May, a third Berryline location flourishing in Fenway, and South Korean frozen dessert chain Red Mango set to open its first Boston location this fall, tangy frozen yogurt competition in Beantown has seen an uptick of late. And for at least one yogurt peddler, no time of year is busier than the beginning of a new fall semester. Whitney Chicoine, who has worked at Berryline’s Fenway location since its opening in June, said she noticed that the business began taking...