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INDEPENDENT RETAILER magazine is now the official news outlet for Wholesale Central visitors. Each monthly issue is packed with new product ideas, supplier profiles, retailing news, and business strategies to help you succeed.

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02/01/2008 - Harvey Files Chapter 11
Harvey Electronics, Inc., based in Lindenhurst, NJ, filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

02/01/2008 - Buyers & Sellers Win with Liquidation.com
You might think that a website like Liquidation.com would balk at the suggestion that it is, "the eBay for wholesale liquidations."

02/01/2008 - Bolster Global eCommerce
Global eCommerce has incredible possibilities when it comes to sales. Buyers are able to find the best prices, and sellers can connect with the greatest number of customers.

02/01/2008 - Affluent Love Bargains
It's hardly surprising that consumers would cite price as the most important factor in clinching an online purchase.

01/01/2008 - Web Buying Habits
Easy search tools were seen as the most useful and desired characteristic of RETAIL websites in a recent survey from The E-tailing Group Inc.

01/01/2008 - Shoppers Need Visuals
"People don't shop by reading text, they shop by visuals, like color and style," said Joe Chung, CEO and co founder of Allurent Inc., a web technology firm.

01/01/2008 - New Tactics for Sears
Sears Holding Corporation has instituted a number of new initiatives. Chief among them is an innovative service that crosses the company's Internet and brick and mortar shopping channels.

01/01/2008 - House of Hoops Debuts
House of Hoops is a new RETAIL concept that has opened in New York City. It is a joint venture between Nike Inc. and Foot Locker Inc. and is devoted to basketball.

01/01/2008 - Entrepreneur Earns Success
Scott Lumley is the epitome of an entrepreneurial spirit.

01/01/2008 - Closeout & Liquidation Forecast
After the holiday season, RETAILers will be sending back countless truckloads of valuable unsold and returned merchandise.

12/01/2007 - What Do Buyers Want?
In a world crowded with counterfeits, shoppers are drawn to the authentic, a characteristic that RETAILers must learn to earn.

12/01/2007 - Warming Buddies
BEARHANDS & BUDDIES extends its Buddy line with an assortment of fleece hats and scarves.

12/01/2007 - Sweet Smell Of Scent Success
Fragrances and scented products have a way of selling themselves, and there are scores of merchandise resellers cashing in on that very idea.

12/01/2007 - STORE Display Merchandising
Have you ever wondered what happens to STORE fixtures that are removed from STORES such as Macy's, CVS, Rite Aid or Burlington Coat Factory when they close or remodel?

12/01/2007 - Home Depot Targets Women
Home Depot's newest RETAIL laboratory has opened in Charlotte, SC.

12/01/2007 - FashionPenny.Com: Demand Drives Sales
Whoever said there is no such thing as easy money was not a wholesale buyer of jewelry from FashionPenny.com.

12/01/2007 - Eliminates Odors
RC PRODUCTIONS INC. introduces Just a Drop, a specially formulated bathroom odor neutralizer.

12/01/2007 - Build-A-Bear Expands
In a continuing effort to reach more boys, Build-A-Bear Workshop is expanding its test of Ridermakerz toy car STORES.

11/01/2007 - Web Apparel Sales Skyrocket
Apparel has become the largest and fastest growing component of internet product sales. Combined online sales of apparel, footwear and fashion accessories, excluding jewelry, moved ahead of computer hardware and software in 2006.

11/01/2007 - Stress Shopping Experience
RETAILers and shopping center owners need to do more than put products on shelves and hope that consumers will buy them.

11/01/2007 - Pewter Dezigns
Pewter Dezigns was born from co-owner Ann McNally's fascination with symbology.

11/01/2007 - NRF Pushes Web Tax
The National RETAIL Federation (NRF) and nearly 100 RETAILers and trade associations are asking Congress to approve legislation

11/01/2007 - Novelties & Souvenirs On Hot Streak
Sales for novelties and souvenirs never seem to go out of style, especially as we head down the homestretch to the holiday season.

11/01/2007 - Night Lite Aroma Lamps
L&V Creations offers a brand new line of exclusive products.

11/01/2007 - Edible Greetings
CREATIVE IDEA SHOP offers Popcorn Greetings.

11/01/2007 - Consumers Want Cross Channels
Consumers' expectations of a multichannel shopping experience are high, according to a survey from Sterling Commerce, which is a unit of AT&T, Inc.

10/01/2007 - Twirling Machine
Dakota Steel Art has developed a new concept in interior decorating and RETAIL advertising.

10/01/2007 - Tiffany Wins Suit
Tiffany & Co. has prevailed in court against Starglam Inc., which it charged with selling Tiffany brand knockoffs online and, in RETAIL STORES.

10/01/2007 - STORES Within STORES
Whether multiple RETAILers join forces in one location, or one RETAILer segregates a department into a boutique, the STORE within a STORE concept proliferates.

10/01/2007 - OfficeMax Aids Small Biz
VistaPrint Ltd., an online supplier of graphic design services and customized printed products for small businesses, is going into RETAIL STORES through an alliance with OfficeMax Inc.

10/01/2007 - Five Business Burdens
There are very few entrepreneurs who would trade owning their own business for anything in the world.

10/01/2007 - Fashion Accessories: Never Out Of Season
The leading sales category for the past two holiday seasons has been Apparel & Clothing, which saw double digit growth, year over year.

10/01/2007 - Celebrate Your Dog
Based on the intricate drawings of 70 different dog breeds, SJT Enterprises has enriched its product offerings with a slew of products devoted to man's best friend.

10/01/2007 - Awesome Heavyweight in Scales
The Barmes family followed a long walk down the Main Street of their hometown, Vincennes, IN, to end up as a dominant supplier of scales to a wide range of markets.

09/01/2007 - Web Info Breeds Sales
Consumers are more likely to return to a website or shop in a RETAILer's STORE if they can obtain complete product information online.

09/01/2007 - Social Shopping Sites
People who love to shop, also love to talk about shopping.

09/01/2007 - Shrink Is Big
RETAILers' loss to theft is higher than many realize. Just ten percent of major RETAILers believed their level of shrink was high in comparison to their competitors, according to one recent study.

09/01/2007 - Shopping By GPS
Mobile phone providers Sprint, Nextel, and GPShopper have teamed up to launch a service that uses the web and global positioning technology to guide shoppers to products they want and the local STORES that carry them.

09/01/2007 - Shoe STORES Consolidate
The Finish Line Inc.'s agreement to buy Genesco Inc. for $1.5 billion brings 2,850 shoe STORES under single ownership

09/01/2007 - Private Label Booms
The nation's top RETAILers are differentiating by using private brands that customers can't find elsewhere.

09/01/2007 - Plus Sizes Growing
Demand for fashion by overweight people is expected to create a $107 billion market by 2012, according to a new report.

09/01/2007 - Innovative Products From Hi-Dow
Hi-Dow began in 2002 as the U.S. distribution point for the Massage Mouse, the U.S. version of a successful product manufactured and distributed in China.

09/01/2007 - Harborplace Kiosks
General Growth Properties Inc., the owner of Baltimore's Harborplace, has put a dozen RETAIL kiosks on the Inner Harbor promenade that faces Harborplace, and plans to add more.

09/01/2007 - Growing Dollars From Scents
Spending on pleasing fragrances and scents continues to climb, according to suppliers.

09/01/2007 - Crime Savvy RETAILers
RETAIL losses from theft and fraud have reached an all time high.

09/01/2007 - Court Ruling Threatens Discounting
In a reversal of a 96 year old antitrust rule, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that suppliers' efforts to control the minimum price of their products at RETAIL is no longer automatically illegal.

09/01/2007 - Back to School Update
Spending on back to school merchandise this fall is expected to average $563.49, up 6.9 percent from last year's average of $527.08.

08/01/2007 - STORES Catching Up Online
RETAILers that only sell online are rated higher in customer satisfaction than websites operated by brick and mortar RETAILers. But the latter group is catching up.

08/01/2007 - Nostalgic signs
Nostalgic signs are among this company's most popular products. They carry approximately 400 different designs of nostalgic signs, all of which are metal and measure 12 inches by 16 inches.

08/01/2007 - Shoppers Want Info
The ability to research products online is very important to RETAIL shoppers, according to a new study conducted for WebCollage.