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Articles in May 8, 1989 issue of Discount Store News

• Wal-Mart's prototype paves way for metro market drive - new store design
  by Richard C. Halverson
• Economy ripe for big three invasion - Regional Analysis: South Atlantic
• Nation's bright spot begins to dim - effect on discount store chains - Regional Analysis: Pacific
• Retailers have designs on lower costs - discount retailers - Operations
• Proper maintenance is important to POS systems - point-of-sale systems - column
  by G. Ronald Driver
• It's chains for jeans; study finds jeans are the men's wear item most likely to be bought at discount department stores
• Crafts & More stitches a new niche - discount craft store chain
• Martha moves out of the kitchen - Martha Stewart's endorsements of K mart products extended from kitchenware to other housewares - HomeMarket Trends supplement
  by Mike Hartnett
• Stewart signature spreads - Martha Stewart signature lines of bed and bath products at K mart - HomeMarket Trends
• Trade groups are fabric of QR technology; FASLINC is developing an educational program and working on producing promotional literature to detail the benefits of QR - Quick Response inventory control system - HomeMarket Trends
• Opportunity knocks for wood - wood window treatments - HomeMarket Trends
• K mart eyes payback on new technology
  by Arthur Markowitz
• Ames' job fair softens effects of retail merger - after acquisition of Zayre , Ames offers outplacement services for laid off employees
• Target introduces new prototype unit; suburban store gets airy look
  by Tony Lisanti
• Some regionals thrive despite odds - regional discounters - Retail Outlook
  by Peter Hisey
• Stuarts treads competitive waters - Stuarts Department Stores, discount store chain - Regional Analysis: New England - company profile
• TSS contracts to stay alive on L.I - discount store chain on Long Island - Regional Analysis: Middle Atlantic - company profile
• Success stores outnumber failures - regional discount store chains - Regional Analysis: East North Central
• Home & haven for top discounters - discount stores - Regional Analysis: South Atlantic
• New merchandisers bring changes - for Rose's discount stores - Regional Analysis: South Atlantic - company profile
• Low-key recovery oils economy - Houston; effect on discount store chains - Regional Analysis: West South Central
• Denver's rocky road nears an end - effect on discount stores - Regional Analysis: Mountain
• Closeouts fortify Yellow Front basics - discount store chain - Regional Analysis: Mountain - company profile
• Breath, pricing key Fedco's success - discount store chain in Southern California - Regional Analysis: Pacific - company profile
• EDLP: the new industry buzz word; chains seek more cost-effective advertising - every day low pricing at discount and department store chains
  by Mary Ellen Kelly
• Ames computerizes front end scheduling - staff scheduling at Ames Department Stores
  by Richard C. Halverson
• Despite store efforts, shrinkage up - store security - column
  by Jack Hayes
• Add-on features offer hope in CE - discount store sales of consumer electronics - column
  by Peter Hisey
• 'The Cable Kitchen' cooks up greater volume - Nationwide Marketing, a housewares manufacturer, uses half-hour cooking show to advertise its products
• Living Center to key K mart's RTA ascendency - ready-to-assemble furniture - HomeMarket Trends
• Quick Response: new systems spur creation of stronger retailer-supplier ties - Quick Response inventory control systems - HomeMarket Trends
  by Don Longo
• Sears everyday pricing paying off? Skeptics seek more evidence of long-term turnaround
  by Don Longo
• Peter Hayes: an adult working in a Child's World - president and chairman of Child World toy store chain
  by Richard C. Halverson
• Sector downturns insulate economy; full-scale disaster averted by mini-recessions in some areas during past 7 years of expansion - effect of the economy on regional discount store chains - Regional Analysis
  by Richard Mount
• Lean population limits retail growth - Providence, Rhode Island - Regional Analysis: New England
• Sam's spells trouble for regionals - Sam's Wholesale Club; regional discount store chains - Regional Analysis: Middle Atlantic
• Wholesale Club beats Midwest jinx - membership warehouse store chain - Regional Analysis: East North Central - company profile
• Super-Regional ShopKo reaches out - discount store chain - Regional Analysis: West North Central - company profile
• Region sees light at end of tunnel - discount store chains - Regional Analysis: West South Central
• Nevada blisters; other states sputter - discount stores - Regional Analysis: Mountain
• Retailers: will the '90s be the decade of the home? - consumers of the future will be concerned with enhancing their homes - column
• 'World Beat' sets rhythm; as traditional and ethnic music has become a dominant trend, home fashions will see a similar accent on global design an ethnic craftwork at all price levels - discount store marketing - HomeMarket Trends
  by Peter Hisey
• RTA vendors strut their stuff - ready-to-assemble furniture - HomeMarket Trends
• PRODIGY comes to N.Y.; Telcos open 'gateways.' - telephone companies to provide connections to businesses with interactive services
  by Arthur Markowitz
• Larger Ames threatens regionals - discount store chains - Regional Analysis: New England
• Crowded K.C. braces for hypermarket - Wal-Mart's Hypermart USA to open in Kansas City; effect on discount store chains - Regional Analysis: West North Central
• Discounter sales still play catch up - Regional Analysis: East South Central
• A bright spot in a depressed state - discount store chains in Birmingham, Alabama - Regional Analysis: East South Central
• Small size & convenience are draw - Bargain Town USA, discount store chain - Regional Analysis: East South Central - company profile
• CE reaches new heights at Auchan - consumer electronics; Auchan hypermarket in Houston - Regional Analysis: West South Central - company profile
• Capital's affordability fuels growth - Sacramento; discount store chain growth - Regional Analysis: Pacific
• Lights, camera, K mart; armed with a $20 million war chest, K mart expects 75 million Americans to be affected by its multimedia campaign - K mart's Martha Stewart housewares advertising campaign - HomeMarket Trends
• The QR revolution - Quick Response inventory control system - HomeMarket Trends
  by Arthur Markowitz
• Ward groups specialty formats to create superstore mall - Montgomery Ward
  by Peter Hisey
• Labor woes slow economy to crawl - effect on discount stores in New York Metropolitan area - Regional Analysis: Middle Atlantic
• Newcomers add sizzle to hot market - discount store chains in Chicago - Regional Analysis: East North Central
• Drought dampens economic growth - effect on discount store chains - Regional Analysis: West North Central
• Wal-Mart set to complete chainwide scanning
  by Arthur Markowitz
• The benefits of being off the beaten path - smaller regional discount stores - column
  by Kenneth M. Chanko
• Texas hypermarkets power CE - consumer electronics
• Generics rescue sinking sales; generics and value-added brands lift tobacco sales from ashes - at discount stores
  by Nanci Brickman
• K mart tests Hispanic H&BA area as chains examine niche needs - health and beauty aids