| 21. | While customers continued to shun clothes last month, sales of " hard goods " like computers continued to climb.
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| 22. | This is an indication that many of the hard goods and entertainment retailers may have a better-than-expected holiday season.
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| 23. | My dad not only taught me the value of hard work, that when you work hard good things happen,
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| 24. | Still, some retailers did well, notably those selling jewelry, consumer electronics, home decorating items, appliances and other hard goods.
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| 25. | Exchanging hard goods for credit-card numbers over a phone line _ audio bleeps and hen-scratchings on a hard drive?
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| 26. | "It hasn't grown as much as it could, but that is because hard goods have been so strong ."
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| 27. | And Sears has not walked away from their hard good business, which is the next leg of profit growth.
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| 28. | Santa Paula has very few large retail stores but residents often travel to neighboring cities to purchase hard goods.
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| 29. | Moving hard goods out of the department stores has also freed up space for more clothing, which carry higher profits.
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| 30. | And so it just may be, Blitzer and other retail experts said, that hard goods have simply peaked for now.
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