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- <text id=89TT0614>
- <title>
- Mar. 06, 1989: Business Notes:Retailers
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 06, 1989 The Tower Fiasco
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 55
- Business Notes
- Retailers
- If You Can't Beat 'Em . . .
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Our goal is to reach everyone in America," says Thomas
- Morris, a vice president at Sears, Roebuck. The message, to be
- delivered this week in more than 900 newspapers and 1,300 daily
- radio spots nationwide, is that the largest U.S. retailer is
- changing its stripes. The company is permanently slashing
- prices as much as 50% on about three-quarters of its 50,000
- products.
- </p>
- <p> Because Sears will have to put new price tags on 1.5 billion
- items, the company will close more than 800 of its stores for
- 42 hours this week. The move is part of Sears' new strategy,
- announced last October, to compete aggressively with such
- discounters as Wal-Mart and Target.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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