11.   Indeed, it seems that small retailers do a dismal job of handling employees.

12.   Investors use those numbers to decide how well a retailer is doing.

13.   Its silver retailers also normally do more business between October and January --the wedding season -- than they do in the rest of the year.

14.   J.C. Penney Co. and specialty apparel retailers did particularly well.

15.   Local retailers do crazy stuff.

16.   No other retailers do that, Boone said.

17.   Not all retailers did well.

18.   No retailers do.

19.   On the other hand, traditional retailers are doing a poor job integrating their online and off-line return policies.

20.   Retailers should do better and maybe even the auto stocks might start to stabilize.