http://www.netvouz.com/hawaii/tag/retail?feed=rss hawaii's bookmarks tagged "retail" on Netvouz http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/23/business/23checkout.html?ex=1340337600&en=dc2c081d2d3a25ae&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink Because people stand in the same line, waiting for a register to become available, there are no "slow" lines, delayed by a coupon-counting customer or languid cashier. hawaii Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:05:36 GMT http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003790031_costcohawaii15.html The Iwilei Costco - the largest among the company's three Oahu locations - posted $300 million in sales last year. Iwilei is so busy, in fact, that it turns its entire inventory every two-and-a-half to three weeks... a logistical wonder considering most everything comes in by water. hawaii Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:14:23 GMT http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/19/8402321/index.htm "When we launched retail, there was a real cult-of-the-Mac mentality," he says. "But our goal was never to have a store for a cult. It was to be a store for everyone. So if you look around here," you see, in fact, the sort of group you'd see in diversity-recruiting brochures. Nor does the store feel like a cult. A club, maybe, in the sense that owning a Mac means joining something. Apple wants the purchase to be the beginning, not the conclusion, of a beautiful - and, it hopes, profitable - friendship. hawaii Fri, 09 Mar 2007 02:02:25 GMT