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- <text id=91TT1995>
- <title>
- Sep. 09, 1991: Business Notes:Retailing
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 09, 1991 Power Vacuum
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 57
- Business Notes
- RETAILING
- Selling Like Hot Peppers
- </hdr><body>
- <p> When Swatch introduced a limited edition of watches styled
- like cucumbers, red chilis, and bacon with eggs, the first 5,250
- sent to the U.S. were gobbled up at once. While most plastic
- Swatches sell for around $45, these retail at eight trendy food
- emporiums from Newport, R.I., to Seattle for $100. But will these
- tasteful timepieces by Pop painter Alfred Hofkunst appreciate
- like the graffiti-inspired ones from Keith Haring, offered in
- 1986 for $50 and now fetching up to $2,500?
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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