"Typically stocks don't go up when numbers are coming down," she said.
Typically, stocks do begin to recover well before an impaired economy does.
Her stores don't typically stock arm warmers until October, but this year there was demand before the weather cooled.
They typically stock fewer than 2,000 products rather than the 40,000 or so in a big, conventional supermarket.
Typically, stocks are indexed by market capitalization the value of a firm's share price times the number of shares from highest to lowest.
Tesco carried out a similar exercise last year in the face of customer defections to the low-cost, low-choice Aldi and Lidl, which typically stock fewer than 2,000 products.
Hausman says Target typically stocks 20 new cards and 20 previously existing cards, with a larger selection of new cards during the holidays.
Typically, stocks get a short-term bump when they are added to an index, since index-mirroring funds like State Street's SPDR S&P 500 exchange-traded fund or BlackRock's iShares S&P 500 Index ETF need to establish a position in the stock.
General shops ranged from large shops to small roadside stalls, typically stocking a mixture of food products and household goods, and a few medicines, such as common painkillers and the occasional antimalarial.
Although enough maize meal can typically be stocked for the month, sugar and other more-valued items (e.g., tea, coffee, tobacco) are more problematic.
