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The Changing Face Of Retail In Times Square

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Sure, you could make an argument for Wall Street as New York’s economic engine and the Statute of Liberty or the Empire State Building as its top tourists draws, but a study by the Times Square Alliance found that $0.22 billion annually in retail, entertainment and hotel sales. That amounts to $4.8 That’s a lot of money.

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Warehouse Space Going For Premium Rates

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Brick-and-mortar merchants are far from being free from the problems that plague their particular brand of retail, but even they have to look at online retail rising rents for warehouse space with a little bit of mirth. percent — the lowest such figure since 2001. As of Q2 2016, industrial warehouse space declined by 8.8

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Millennials Are Facing Their Second ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Financial Crash

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And as Karen Webster noted in a 2016 commentary: “The generation that made sriracha a food group and yoga pants a go-to corporate wardrobe staple … the generation that every brand is desperately trying to woo is, by and large, broke.” bartenders, half of restaurant workers and a large share of retail workers.

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Why The Sweet Smell Of Tech Success Can Be Rife With Failure

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In 2001, at the COMDEX Fall computer show, Microsoft ’s then-CEO Bill Gates introduced to the world to the Microsoft Tablet PC. Plus, wireless internet was still in its early days in 2001 and 3G was nonexistent in the U.S. For example…. The Tablet. The Miss . Microsoft’s Tablet PC. The Famicom Console.

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Why Regulation Won’t Fix Credit Reporting Agencies

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That business was called The Retail Credit Corporation. The Retail Credit Corporation was also free to sell that data to anyone willing to pay for it, and many did. It would take another three decades — 2001 — for the FCRA to be amended further to give consumers direct access to their credit reports for a “fair and reasonable” fee.

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24 Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Annual Letters To Shareholders

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It also owns 50 subsidiary companies that have 200 more subsidiaries themselves, including Geico (acquired in 1996), Dairy Queen (1997), and Fruit of the Loom (2001). You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.” ( 2001 ). In spring 2001, Cisco’s shareholders had lost a total of 28.6%

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Has Unbundling Lost Its Cool?

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Digital music has been unbundled since the iPod and iTunes got a head of steam in 2001. Store-based installment plans have existed for decades, but now point-of-sale credit innovators offer consumers the chance to finance the purchase of individual products in-store and online, via white label or branded solutions.

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