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Volume-Generating Sales Promotions Will Hurt Q4 Earnings

Volume-Generating Sales Promotions Will Hurt Q4 Earnings

by Alexandra Steigrad

Posted Monday January 12, 2009

From WWD Issue 01/12/2009

The promotions that helped produce last-minute holiday sales might have lightened many retailers’ inventories, but the bite they took out of profit margins will come back to haunt them next month...
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