Retailing

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BusinessWeek July 19, 2004 David Henry	A Second Act For Pier 1? Shares of Pier 1 Imports are in the doghouse. But Robert Olstein, manager of the Olstein Financial Alert Fund, says that with the stock so far down, it is cheap enough to buy. He owns 1.6 million shares.
The Motley Fool July 8, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Partying Over Pier 1 Beleaguered Pier 1 Imports was one of the only retail stocks that investors looked kindly on today, despite the fact that it reported a 4.3% decrease in same-store sales in June.
The Motley Fool July 8, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Some Like It Hot in June Trading at 15 times forward earnings, AnnTaylor looks a lot cheaper than Chico's, with its P/E of 29, but there remains the idea that the latter company's shares have a rich price tag to match its continued impressive growth.
The Motley Fool July 8, 2004 Alyce Lomax	J.C. Penney Rules June J.C. Penney succeeds in a month when many lower-priced retailers did not.
The Motley Fool July 8, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	What a Teen Wants Two of the big teen specialty retailers square off, and the simple dressers are winning. Hot Topic suffered a 0.4% dip in same-store sales last month, while American Eagle saw its June comps soar by 8.7%.
The Motley Fool July 7, 2004 Steven Mallas	CVS's Bright Picture Send CVS your digital photos over the Net, pick them up the next day. While competitors are sure to follow suit, this still shows how intellegent and creative this drugstore blue chip can be.
Wired July 2004 Josh McHugh	Attention, Shoppers: You Can Now Speed Straight Through Checkout Lines! Radio-frequency chips are retail nirvana. They're the end of privacy. They're the mark of the beast. Inside the tag-and-track supermarket of the future.
The Motley Fool July 6, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Not Ready for Rite Aid Can the drugstore chain hold a candle to the competition? Its shares are trading at 22 times forward earnings, making it a seemingly less-than-advantageous time to place a bet on them.
The Motley Fool July 6, 2004 Steven Mallas	Walgreen's Sunny Sales The retail pharmacy has a resplendently ruddy June, with comp sales increasing more than 10%.
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Stephanie Anderson Forest	When Quotas End, Who Gets The Goodies? When decades-old quotas on apparel imports from low-cost manufacturing countries expire, wholesale apparel prices will plunge, but retailers may not pass on a lot of savings.
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