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A store selling synthetic cannabinoids in Riga in 2012 JWH-018, JWH-073, CP 47,497 (and its homologues), and HU-210, as well as leonotis leonurus , have been all banned in Latvia since 2005. [ 135 ] After the first confirmed lethal case from the use of legal drugs in late 2013, parliament significantly increased the number of temporarily banned ...
Lazarus developed or was an early adopter of many shopping innovations such as "one low price" (no bargaining necessary, earlier implemented by the John Wanamaker Store [3]), first department store escalators in the country, first air-conditioned store in the country, and Fred Lazarus Jr. successfully lobbied President Franklin Roosevelt to ...
Jack Black, rat-catcher, 1851. A rat-catcher is a person who kills or captures rats as a professional form of pest control.Keeping the rat population under control was practiced in Europe to prevent the spread of diseases, most notoriously the Black Death, and to prevent damage to food supplies.
In 1986, Federated merged its Gold Circle division with its Richway Department Stores, another Federated discount division.While the chains each continued to operate under their original names (though several Richways were converted to Gold Circles), buying and other administrative functions for both were consolidated into Gold Circle's Worthington, Ohio headquarters.
The Range, Andover (2006) The Range, Tulip Retail Park, Leeds (2007) CDS (Superstores International) Limited, trading as The Range, is a British variety store and garden centre retailer, originally founded as Chris Dawson Superstores (C.D.S.) in 1989.
On 31 January 2013, B&Q Ireland Ltd filed for examinership in the Irish courts and PWC Ireland was appointed examiner, [47] though shops continued to trade while alternative financing arrangements were made. [48] B&Q Ireland had been making a loss since two years before, although the shops in the United Kingdom continued to stay in profit. [49]
In Ireland, the retail sector provides one of the largest sources of employment in the economy, representing over 12% of the workforce. [1] As of 2017, approximately 40,000 wholesale and retail businesses employed almost 280,000 people in Ireland, [2] [1] with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment reporting that 90% of these businesses were Irish-owned.
Value City Department Stores was an American department store chain with 113 locations. It was founded in 1917 by Ephraim Schottenstein, a travelling salesman in central Ohio. The store was an off-price retailer that sold clothing, jewelry, and home goods below the manufacturer suggested retail price. The chain focused on buyout and closeout ...