While the company has a hot food service division and some healthy profits in refrigerated products like Pillsbury dough items and Haagen Dazs, canned vegetables and other frozen items have been a drag.
McCafe items have been a boon to the company in recent months, competing with premium coffee outlets like Starbucks.
While Russians have little to no expectation that they will benefit from direct cash transfers of oil and gas revenues, generous subsidies for gasoline, water, electricity, and other items have been a cornerstone of the Saudi social contract for decades.
Stores carrying Trump family items have been a target of boycott campaign.
At Bebe, the best-selling item has been a slinky one-shoulder dress for $98.
The chain, peddling everything for $1, from housewares to toys to health items, has been on an acquisition tear.
An "underground" website famed for selling drugs and other illegal items has been targeted in a cyberattack.
The digital archive, which has more than 24,000 items, has been operating for about a month; there is capacity for millions of images.
To the best of our knowledge, only skipped test items has been used before as a proxy for non-cognitive skills by Hernández and Hershaff (2014).
Some large-format items have been given a "Q" or an "F" to designate them as oversize materials.
