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Retailers Get Holiday Reality Check

Retailers Get Holiday Reality Check

by David Moin with contributions from Elizabeth Thurman, Cate T. Corcoran, Anne Riley-Katz, Vicki M. Young, Holly Haber

Posted Tuesday December 23, 2008

From WWD Issue 12/23/2008

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