distress merchandise

The question is whether they are distressed merchandise or a legitimate bargain.

Be aware, though, that these are probably distress merchandise - tours that have failed to sell.

But buyers will eventually more than pay for those incentives for a simple reason: distress merchandising takes its toll on resale values.

The truly idiotic part of HP's bailout is the pricing of it's distressed merchandise.

There was some last-minute distressed merchandise during the Olympics coverage, and Northwestern management was able to pick up thirty 60-second spots for only $1.4 million.

"It's the charter flights and certainly some of the more distressed merchandise that sometimes gets the lower bids," said its president and chief executive, Michael Hering.

Typically, he would buy up the distressed merchandise and have it quickly and cheaply adapted in offshore workshops so it can be plugged in in America.

"My father used to say, 'Woe be unto you,' " said Mr. Levy, who owns a company that sells distressed merchandise.

The focus in 1990 will be on making money on distressed merchandise, to mine through issues that are dramatically oversold and to look for the new deals that are truly good.

Medgeley was a thirtyish banker type, Jack decided somewhat unkindly, who bought his shirts at Sears Roebuck's Annual Distressed Merchandise Sale.

"Unless the Japanese act now to immediately cut back their export shipments, they will begin to 'distress merchandise' this huge amount of overshipment and their share will rocket up again," Iacocca said in the letter.

"Now," he said, and put his fingertips together comfortably, like a pawnbroker getting ready to bid low on distress merchandise, "I suppose you want to hear all about the man in black, how I knew just when he'd appear, and so on."

They opened their first store at 510 Market Street, where they prospered in the retail business, first in distressed merchandise, eventually moving up to a full-featured department store: the Miller Brothers' Company department store, founded 1889, adding a wholesale department in 1895.