home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=91TT2904>
- <title>
- Dec. 30, 1991: Business Notes:Retailing
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 30, 1991 The Search For Mary
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 60
- Business Notes
- RETAILING
- Hardball Express
- </hdr><body>
- <p> There is no holiday cheer between American Express and Laura
- Ashley, the clothing chain. Last week the charge-card giant
- ceased doing business with the retailer, accusing Laura Ashley
- of persuading customers to use other cards. As a result, the 520
- Ashley stores around the world have had to stop accepting Amex
- charges. Ashley had been trying for some time to bargain down
- the fees it pays for purchases on the card. The bicker exploded
- into a brawl when a shopper, who turned out to be an American
- Express executive, was discouraged from using her card at an
- Ashley store in New Jersey.
- </p>
-
- </body></article>
- </text>
-
-