About $4 billion in annual sales cross eBay's auction site, where individual buyers and sellers come together to bid on merchandise ranging from automobiles to antiques.
Consumers who prefer a PC screen to a cellphone screen will be able to order the merchandise, ranging from cosmetics to clothing, from a Web site (livebuyit.com).
Workers then began bringing in merchandise, ranging from fake blood ($1.99) to elaborate costumes that can cost as much as $199.
Merchandise ranges from vintage Diane von Furstenberg to timeless denim from Wrangler and Levi's to two-year-old H&M, all of it hip enough to survive an inspection by the store's highly discerning buyers.
There is no escape in the United States – nor likely the entire planet – from the tidal wave of linked merchandise ranging from action figures to toys to perfumes to – I kid you not – lightsaber barbecue tongs.
Its site, www.aolaadvantage.com, is already open for business and allows members of the American Airlines AAdvantage program to convert their miles directly into merchandise, ranging from books and videos to coffee makers to electronic equipment, without any additional cash payment.
Sainsbury's surprised investors when it revealed its interest in Home Retail and some remain sceptical about combining the supermarket's mainly food business with an ailing seller of general merchandise ranging from electric toothbrushes to power tools and mattresses.
So what is next for Restoration Hardware, a chain of 104 stores in 31 states that attracts an upscale urban clientele with merchandise ranging from inexpensive Bite the Man dog toys to reproduction Mission furniture?
The Indian Outpost also stocks a wide array of merchandise ranging from compact discs of Native American music to packaged food products such as chili stew and fry bread mixes.
A former Air Force "brat" who has rebelled against her parents' conservatism, this woman is now a staunch Obama supporter who works in one of the more unusual shops here (its selection of merchandise ranges from pink flamingos to swords, pirate gear, and books with titles like "Death Warmed Over: Funeral Food, Rituals and Customs").
