"I would use something really cool on a shoot and then have no use for it and it would be gone," adds Hughes, who confesses that parting with their one-of-a-kind merchandise is often the hardest part.
The three-day event showcased designers' haute couture, or custom-made apparel, for hundreds of high-end clientele, buyers and press who are still eager to snag unique, one-of-a-kind merchandise.
What kind of merchandise will the store sell?
If so, what kind of merchandise is sold?
"It's the kind of merchandise we used to call flash and trash," said Richard Jaffee, a retail analyst at Paine Webber.
All are charged with selling the wrong kind of merchandise in an area zoned for amusement-related businesses, or with running businesses out of the containers.
Of particular interest is the Libel of English Policy (c. 1436) on another typically English theme of a related kind: "Cherish merchandise, keep the admiralty, / That we be masters of the narrow sea".
Consumers brave enough to pull out their wallets in this economy have grown accustomed to fire sales on every kind of merchandise, from fancy dresses to gas-guzzling cars.
"This isn't the kind of merchandise that was available in the early 1990s," says Lorraine Spurge Lorraine Spurge, chief executive of Los Angeles-based financial advisory firm Spurge Ink.
We shall learn the exact geographical distribution of the various types of wholesale and retail outlets, the kind of merchandise handled and by what stores in the various sections of the country.
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