31.   Faced with an overall drop in consumer spending, retailers began discounting earlier than usual and focused more on what they expect will be the hot items.

32.   In August, the Atlanta-based home-improvement retailer began offering all of its products online to users in Las Vegas.

33.   Some British retailers have begun boycotting French products and angry French farmers have been stopping British trucks and checking them for meat products.

34.   Under threat of a boycott, some major retailers began posting bilingual signs.

35.   However, Mongkok retailers reportedly began stocking the illegal goods elsewhere as soon as police had departed.