Many analysts think customers increasingly want the low prices, easy parking and broad assortment of goods that discounters provide.
"But the Internet provides an unlimited supply of product, and a broader assortment of styles to find a bra that fits better".
Sarah Gelman, a spokeswoman for Amazon, said in an e-mail, "We are happy to again be lowering prices on a broad assortment of HarperCollins titles".
The Dodgers wanted a broad assortment of documents, ranging from those showing how baseball has treated other teams to Commissioner Bud Selig's approval of other clubs' TV deals.
Amazon declined to comment beyond saying, "We have lowered prices for customers from the prices publishers set on a broad assortment of Kindle books".
"P.& G. manufactures a much broader assortment of products, and their exposure is going to be greater," an analyst at Morningstar, Lauren DeSanto, said.
The venue originally featured Vaudeville and variety shows, and continues to book a broad assortment of offerings – from comedy to film screenings to live music.
"It's a better business for everyone," Ms. Comer Williams said, "if sales are spread across a broad assortment of products, rather than concentrated on one or two".
Her second collection — "Diane Arbus: Magazine Work," published in 1984 — contains a broad assortment of believers: soothsayers, nudists, girls at fat camp, singles in love.
We have a longstanding record of engaging with a broad assortment of groups on a bipartisan basis, both at the national and local level.
