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Articles in Jan 9, 1984 issue of Discount Store News

• Ferkauf bucks Manhattan rat race with 1st ClubMart
• Nothing is upgraded at Family Dollar except profits: 5.9% on $264M sales
• Consumers still prefer discounters for hard goods
• 400 K marts to get A.T.& T. Phone Booth program by mid-April
• Revamped K mart evolving; $200 sales-sq. ft. is goal
• Bigger biz, still no profit seen for J. Brannam in '84
• White projects black ink from conversion program
• Heck's revamps dept. to up sales-ft. 40% in 3 years
  by Larry Riggs
• Retail stock prices in a slide despite chains' big sales, net
• Seat covers, spark plugs, mats shine - PMA-automotive
  by Herb Rechter
• K Mart unwraps 1st look-of-the-future store
• Glassware rings bell but buyers are split on best-selling mix
• Discounter Copps is put on the block; parent notes failure to upgrade
• Controlled label bows at Gemco
• K mart plans warehouse home centers on its own; Hechinger joint venture off
• Greater Miami's retail population in transition
• Front-end scanning progress slows to a crawl
• Revco to acquire odd lot for $113.5 million in stock
• Battleground switches to House for counterfeit trademark bill
  by Ken Rankin
• 1984 Ad
• Lucky adding 47 auto stores in '84, widening product mix
• Novelty-sticker demand unglues license sales
• Crazy Eddie's red herring shows net on rise after marginal profits in'83
  by Brent H. Felgner
• Discount lobbyists win battle, not war, on gray market rider
  by Ken Rankin
• Target wins 2nd DISC award
• Marshalls bolsters existing markets, shuns upscaling
• Car-volume boom spurs accessories
• Sales big, also costs as NBO tries NYC
  by Karen Paxton
• Senate unit: anticounterfeit bill not to be abused by makers - Washington report - column
  by Ken Rankin
• K mart appointment underlines growth of specialty retailing
• Weather-related supply shortages bug plant buyers
• Toleration of 'phony' price ads by FTC hurts legit discounters - column
  by Ken Rankin
• H.J. Wilson mulls sharp departures
• T.G. & Y. turnaround 'difficult, achievable'
  by Iris Rosenberg
• Oshman's to top 200 stores, $300M sales in 1985
• Prerecorded video tape market attracts full-line discounters
  by Fred Carlat
• Pump toothpastes brighten dental-oral item category
• Goldstein named chief operating officer of coordinator Jewelcor Merchandising
• Higher-priced preschool toys seen chalking up gains; audio-visual items, playsets, furniture - Toys
• Congress intends to hold stores responsible for product safety - Washington report - column
  by Ken Rankin
• Wide swings in popularity mark brands; ladies' apparel - top brands
• Discounter net tops in last fiscal year
• FTC economists propose diluted enforcement of RPM - Washington report - column
  by Ken Rankin
• Industry innovators - retail trade
• Administration lets makers retaliate vs. price-cutting stores
• Discounters increase 5 key perks for execs, but whittle 3 others
• HRT's Ch.11 reorganization plan set for confirmation
• NMRI to hire VP-govenment relations to head new downtown Wash. branch
• Caldor, Best appoint 'outside' executives to top-level slots
• More chains gamble on computer payoff - Home Computer supplement
• 1984 Ad
  by Larry Carlat
• Kids' wear is shopped the most
• B.J.'s Wholesale Club, new Zayre subsidiary, skeds first 2 outlets
  by Al Heller
• Exercise gear, activewear pull biggest show traffic
  by Larry Carlat
• Seat-cover sales seen accelerating 15%-25% in 1984
• No.1 Marshalls is en route to $1.3B in 1984
• Marriage-mail curbs being considered by postal officials could zoom rates
• Discounters plan for expected apparel-import shortage
• CD tests catalog order desks in eight Canadian post office
  by Arthur Markowitz
• H.J. Wilson's net soars 56%, but inches ahead as % of biz
• Service Mdse. to use mini-showrooms for Los Angles invasion
• Kitchen Korner will spread to every K mart
• Fashion is main disk at housewares show
  by Al Heller
• Future of credit card surcharge still cloudy - column
  by Ken Rankin
• Consumer research helps Roses boost sales
• Discounter PACs are armed for Congressional races
• Cook United's apparel is the key in last-chance recovery plans
• Chains' new controls brake escalating travel expenses
  by Al Heller
• 1984 Ad
• More chains devise technique to block unfriendly takeovers
• Licensing is juvenile domestics
• Over 20 retailers, trade assns. mobilize to fight import quotas
• Census shows healthy, growing industry - editorial
  by Iris S. Rosenberg
• Service Mdse. expands showrooms, home centers
• Several full-liners give private labels a larger role - Ladies' Apparel
• Fishing gear buyers unreel shopping list
• Bill could threaten chains' legit goods; FTC would define 'counterfeit'
• Chains eye 10%-15% '84 sales gains - Hardware
• Toys "R" Us and Child World shrank TV ad outlays in 1983
• Consumers make less use of warranty information; despite controversial FTC regs

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