Now it's only starting to come back, and it's mostly higher end.
The magazine wants to extend that practice to mostly high-end goods, starting with the automotive rankings, followed over the next few years by detailed rankings of things like video cameras, television sets and digital music players.
Trading from an elegant and exquisitely presented shop on one of Istanbul's most fashionable streets – his neighbours are mostly high-end European superbrands – Portakal organises auctions and deals many of Turkey's finest objets d'art.
Inside is a panoply of brushes and cosmetics, with everything from tinted moisturiser to light-reflecting primer, brow pencils and mascara, even perfume – all donated from a number of mostly high-end brands in the beauty industry.
Mr. Kurniawan did consign some wines to the shop for sale, but Mr. Wasserman described them as mostly high-end California wines that were bought directly from the producers and were still in their original cases.
Since that day in 1987, Applegate Farms, with its offices in Bridgewater, has become a leading purveyor of nitrate-free, antibiotic-free, deli-style meats, sausages and smoked items, wrapped in plastic and offered for sale at mostly high-end markets and organic grocery stores.
Michael Duryea, associate director of management at Brown Harris Stevens, a real estate firm that manages 150 mostly high-end buildings around the city, said it could cost about $400,000 to install a generator, and then another $30,000 a year to maintain it.
Befitting an expensive, high-concept mall that could be mistaken for the Judeo-Christian interpretation of the afterlife, the stores inside the Oculus are mostly high-end and unapproachable – there's a John Varvatos, a Kate Spade, and a store called Reiss that sells blazers that cost more than my television – and I avoid them as I wander.
Another way to reach Osa is to take a 50-minute flight from San Jos?o Drake Bay -- a beautiful region on the northern edge of the peninsula, but remote and expensive, with a collection of "mostly high-end hotels, very isolated and mostly accessible only by boat," according to Frommer's.
Since the cards being tested by Chase and Wells Fargo are being offered only to a limited number of mostly high-end customers, the best option for the rest of us is to carry a couple of cards in our wallets and politely insist that the cashier keep trying to swipe each credit card, as the card reader may be able to recognize the magnetic strip and approve the purchase.
