Under Mr. Johnson, Penney saw more than $4 billion in sales disappear in a single year.
Up the road a little, in Blackburn, the Lancashire Telegraph did even worse after its price increase, seeing 3,700 daily sales disappear in four weeks.
About 17% of the consumer-goods industry's sales disappear into such trade spending, says Ms Hulit.Meanwhile, the complexity of advertising, marketing and distributing branded consumer goods has soared, further pushing up costs.
Documents relating to the sale disappeared mysteriously from Mr. Kohl's Chancellery.
Real estate agents say properties for sale disappear quickly, and that any open land that is ideal for a small winery usually sells even faster.
She watched the $15,000 — and our last chance for a sale — disappear next to the sunken chest of 81-year-old Amarillo Slim Preston, a professional gambler whose session in the 40th annual World Series of Poker appeared on television the night before.
The delay is also a huge blow to Bristol-Myers, whose dominance in cancer-drug sales has disappeared.
Data on sales largely disappeared after the February 1637 collapse in prices, but a few other data points on bulb prices after tulip mania show that bulbs continued to lose value for decades thereafter.
The files relating to the Elf sale have disappeared from the chancellery and last week Mr. Kohl's successor, the Social Democrat Gerhard Schroder, announced a formal investigation into the disappearance.
Since most of the 1,192 copies of the first edition for sale had disappeared in the bookshelves of private customers, the 3,000 copies of the second edition (Darwin 1860) as well as the final version of the text (Darwin 1872a) became much better known than the original book of 1859.
