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The article focuses on the factors, including an increase in retail store profit margins related to staffing cuts, which industry analysts feel will be responsible for a reduction in large bargains which U.S. consumers will see during the 2007 holiday season. A discussion of several retail stores, including Circuit City Stores Inc., that were forced to offer large savings to consumers in 2006, is presented.

The article focuses on Kishore Biyani of Mumbai, India who has built a large and successful retail business in the country by designing stores that are messy noisy, and cramped. When Biyani opened stores in the country in 2001 he found that many customers were entering and leaving his stores without buying anything and assumed that it was because Indian customers weren't used to shopping in quiet sterile environments. He redesigned them and had financial success as a result.

The article focuses on changes, including more convenient placement of items and better lighting, that retail stores, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Best Buy and Home Depot, have implemented within their retail stores to make shopping more convenient and less time consuming for consumers in the U.S.

The article discusses the trend of retail trunk show parties hosted at private homes focusing on the personal shopping company CAbi created by Cheryl Higgins.

The article discusses the shopping haunts of Bernard Madoff at Trillion, a clothier for men at Palm Beach Florida. Madoff is allegedly a clotheshorse aside from enjoying the finer things in life such as $50 pedicures, 4 homes, 2 boats and 2 partially owned jets. Trillion specializes in hand-stitched, rare-fabric, top-brand attire for the so called elite people. Before the arrest of Madoff on December 11, 2008 and his detainment in New York, he reportedly went shopping at Trillion and plans to pick up the goods at another time.

Comments on a growing trend in the United States of people trying to buy home furnishings from their friends which they see in these friends' houses. Examples, including Kimberly Brown, whose guest tried to buy a painting she had on her wall; Criticism of this behaviour as poor manners; How some people go about this process.

Reveals that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is testing an in-store coffee bar hoping that shoppers across the United States will continue to shop after drinking a cup of coffee. The three cafes called Cafe Tostino that opened in March 1999; Number of cafes that are expected to open by the end of 1999; What Wal-Mart hopes to gain by having these in-store cafes.