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"The homes we've seen, there haven't been any price markdowns."

In addition, stores have heavy price markdowns in January to clear out holiday and winter merchandise.

Price markdowns hurt profits in earlier periods.

Some dealers said much of the late dealings consisted of trying to attract elusive investors with price markdowns.

Gap, based in San Francisco, said it achieved the gain despite higher price markdowns, which brought in sales but put pressure on profits.

Technological advances and rapid diffusion of older technologies make personal computers extremely perishable-much like apparel with a fashion content-and subject to almost constant price markdown pressure.

Reflecting this year's conservative approach, Macy said inventories continued to be tightly managed, which analysts said should allow the company to avoid heavy price markdowns during the Christmas rush.

Price Markdowns About $220 million in extra price markdowns on merchandise were made in the quarter, as the retailer adjusted prices to try for more sales.

The central issue relates to deductions that Saks and other department stores take from the money they owe to suppliers, used to compensate for price markdowns the stores make when merchandise does not sell as well as expected.

The store's critics complain of relentless expansion nationwide - the chain's 49th store is scheduled to open in Long Island City, Queens, this spring - and price markdowns that are driving smaller independent stores out of business.

Because it is still a new field, authoritative data on the benefits of demand optimization is not widely available, although suppliers offer case studies of early adopters which claim rapid return on investment, especially in the optimization of the timing and level of price markdowns.