1.   Some retailers use distinctive packaging for their own brands, eg one supermarket chain packaged everything in bright yellow.

2.   And even if workers were plentiful, retailers still would use skeletal staffs because of cost pressures.

3.   A few years ago, practically no retailers were using his agency.

4.   Bruce Van Kleeck, spokesman for the National Retail Federation, also sees a future where traditional retailers use net auctions as a possible way to dump excess inventory.

5.   Business has been brisk for paper makers such as New Oji Paper Co., as retailers use more advertising fliers and mail-order catalogs to entice hesitant consumers.

6.   Cummings of Masspirg said she believes the restocking fee is being used by retailers to discourage customers from making returns.

7.   For example, he said, retailers can use their computer systems to track how the money is spent.

8.   For example, retailers are using improved technology and keeping better control of inventory, he said.

9.   Fuji, for one, is dedicating a lot of its marketing budget to Frontier, a minilab that retailers can use to make prints from digital cameras.

10.   GRC is developing a product that retailers can use to zap consumer data across the country.