Retailers, especially the department and specialty stores that trade in more fashion-sensitive merchandise, may end up with too much of some products because business is so weak.
Analysts predict that department stores, with their more seasonal, trend-sensitive merchandise, are most likely to be whipsawed this holiday season.
Participants who view red or high-brightness backgrounds are sensitive to merchandise prices and react significantly negatively to high prices.
Nexus keeps tabs on terror-sensitive businesses and merchandise, among other things.
The Nexus program keeps tabs on, among other things, terror-sensitive businesses and merchandise.
"The items are very highly time-sensitive, trend-oriented seasonal merchandise, and it's related to the fact that we are clearing out those products when they're on clearance," said Douglas Kline, a spokesman for Target, which operates Target.com online.
Forbes: Twin worries you hear some analysts fret about: the high debt load and the broader concern that price sensitive consumers will trade down to store branded merchandise.
You will also find moisture-absorbent packets in some merchandise such as shoes, medication and accessories that are sensitive to moisture.
So I think it's safe to assume that the sensitive old flower would not have been amused by the latest advert for his American merchandise.
"Merchandising is probably where it gets the hardest because it's more sensitive," Mrs. Wing said.
"But certainly we have looked at the merchandise and tried to make sure that everything from the merchandise to the commercials to the print ads is sensitive and appropriate," said the spokeswoman, Carolyn Brookter.
