The Internet could fuel a new sales boom, as CDs did in the 1980s and early 1990s, letting labels sell old catalog fare that stores don't have room to stock.
But this inventive summer company has more unusual fare in store for later in the season, including Hugo Weisgall's "Six Characters in Search of an Author" and "Burning Bright," by Frank Lewin, a Princeton native.
But this inventive company, which performs only in the summer at the McCarter Theater at Princeton University, has more unusual fare in store for later in the season, including Hugo Weisgall's "Six Characters in Search of an Author" and "Burning Light," by Frank Lewin, a Princeton native.
Passengers can use refillable paper-plastic-composite tickets, on which fares are stored via a magnetic strip, to enter and exit the system.
Supercenters locations that sell both traditional discount-store fare and groceries are the retail chain's most profitable store format.
The in-store fare seems to have a pacifying effect on customers in crowded stores.
Specialty and warehouse stores fared better than the large chains.
"How well discounters and department stores fared versus the teen retailers is striking," Mr. Long said.
On the whole, department stores fared poorly but did slightly better than the pessimistic forecasts by analysts.
