| ALL BUSINESS: Cost cutting nightmare
Last updated January 11, 2008 9:19 a.m. PT ALL BUSINESS: Cost cutting nightmare By RACHEL BECK
AP BUSINESS WRITER NEW YORK -- Corporate leaders who think they can slash expenses without customers noticing might want to give Circuit City Stores Inc.'s top brass a call. The electronics retailer is living the nightmare of cost-cutting gone bad. The Richmond, Va.-based company has been in a downward spiral since it announced last spring that it would lay off thousands of experienced workers it candidly said it could replace with cheaper new hires. Too bad that service matters in that corner of the retail market. Shoppers quickly noticed and fled - leaving Circuit City's sales and profits plunging. Its same-store holiday sales, reported on Monday, fell 11.4 percent.
Traffic study crucial to future Target store
That will allow a 30-day clock for developers to come back in February and fix some augmentations to their plan that needs to be done," said Martin. Wegmans and Target began talking with each other 10 months ago about building on Wegmans' land in Chili. The land, already zoned commercial, is considered an untapped location for a free-standing store. The former Chase-Pitkin Home & Garden chain looked into building there four years ago. ELAMOTHE@DemocratandChronicle.com .
Definition of Dementia
Dementia is a brain disorder with permanent loss of memory or other higher cognitive function.. Dementia can either be progressive, such as in Alzheimer's disease, or may remain stable, as can be seen after a stroke or head injury. Different types of dementia can affect various cognitive functions such as memory, personality, or executive function. By definition, dementia is permanent. A brief change in cognitive function is more often called a "delirium". Different types of dementia can affect different abilities. Some patients may get lost, have trouble remembering things, become unable to remember names of objects and people, or have trouble calculating numbers, among other problems. In many cases, dementia may progress very slowly and it is difficult to determine when the problem precisely began.
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Ruling: TJX No Longer a Federal Case
The largest credit card data breach in history is now a matter for a Massachussetts court.The worst credit card data breach in history is a federal case no more. A federal judge overseeing the TJX cases in effect fired himself as TJX judge on Tuesday, and ordered the case out of federal court and into Massachusetts state court. U.S. District Court Judge William Young also praised Visa as a "hero" because it conducted its own investigation and worked out a settlement with a class of plaintiffs. "I find this very significant, [that] theyve worked out a settlement with an opt-in class. Opt-in classes are very desirable," the judge said from the bench. The judge was referring to an agreement that Visa worked out with TJX where TJX would directly pay some of the plaintiffs banks.
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