Top 10 Retailers,
based on 2008 annual revenue

1

Wal-Mart

2

Kroger

3

Costco

4

Home Depot

5

Target

6

Walgreen

7

CVS Caremark

8

Lowe’s

9

Sears

10

Best Buy

Source: National Retail Federation
Last year’s list…

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The average child manipulates his parents to get what he wants—and parents usually don’t even know it. “Most parents seem to be completely unaware of how much their little ones make them buy,” said Claus Ebster, one of two researchers from the University of Vienna who unobtrusively observed 178 parents shopping with children in Austrian […]

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Bank of America is offering enrolled customers the chance to earn up to 20% cash back on their purchases at more than 270 online retailers. The new Add It Up program can be combined with other BofA promotions, including Keep the Change, which places change from the dollar on check card purchases into savings accounts, and BankAmericard […]

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Leading ice cream makers made news last summer when they quietly reduced the size of their cartons, without reducing retail prices. But now a Maine-based family-owned ice cream firm is bucking the trend.
Gifford’s Ice Cream is boosting the size of its cartons from 56-ounces to 64-ounces next month, with no increase in price. Company president […]

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Think inflation has been under control? Think again.
New research from the American Institute for Economic Research confirms “a slow steady eating away” has eroded purchasing power.  “Chronic … inflation even at ‘moderate’ rates leads to substantial losses of buying power over time,” it notes.

Since 1913, the year Congress created the Federal […]

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