Signs get shoppers to choose stairs over escalator
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NEW YORK  - Signs advertising the health benefits of stair-climbing might get more people to forgo that easy ride up the escalator, a study suggests.
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JUST AS THEY pioneered modern escalators to carry crowds of shoppers upward, department stores encouraged their customers' social mobility. The big stores grew up with a burgeoning American middle class that they provided with its tastes, habits -- and consumer goods.
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WASHINGTON - At rail stations and shopping malls around the world, reports are popping up of people, particularly young children, getting their toes caught in escalators. The one common theme seems to be the clunky soft-soled clogs known by the name of the most popular brand, Crocs.
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This retailer's still trying to loosen up.
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By Rodney Tanaka, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Calif.  Jun. 22--ARCADIA, Calif. -- Shoppers have a new way to browse before  setting foot in the mall.
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Magazine publishers are finding the checkout counter more appealing.
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The big iPhone clock counted down, and the chants of "iPhone iPhone!" inside the store were beginning to be heard outside in the mall.  Potential customers who were in the front of the line had mouths half-agape, and the gate slowly raised.
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The other day I spotted a &quot;Going Out of Business&quot; sign stretched across the window of a Stride Rite (NYSE: SRR) store. Upon further investigation, I learned that the franchised
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If the home-furnishings retailer can't get things right by the holidays, look out below.
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High Street retailers launch a series of sales and special offers to lure stay-at-home consumers into some early Christmas shopping.
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Merchants who spent the past few weeks hoping shoppers would splurge on gifts opened their doors Sunday with high hopes people would now spend on themselves.
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Aeropostale flies higher and delivers the goods.
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CBS snaps up supermarket video display specialist SignStorey.
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By Clint Swett, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Dec. 14--As the holiday shopping season heads into its final days, the appeal of hitting your keyboard for gift-getting only gets brighter.
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Blog: From the front lines on Fifth Avenue.
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At rail stations and shopping malls around the world, reports are popping up of people, particularly young children, getting their toes caught in escalators. The one common theme seems to be the clunky soft-soled clogs known by the name of the most popular brand, Crocs.
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As high-rises go up around New York City, so do fears that one will block a favorite view. But the vistas from some apartments are protected, and others are worth a gamble.