1.   All of this has helped the chains to sell more products at full-price, whereas much of their revenue used to come from discounted merchandise.

2.   Discounted merchandise or anything Pokemon was a good thing on Friday.

3.   Sansone denied that JNA had raised prices at the downtown stores before initiating the discounts, thus raising the overall price level on supposedly discounted merchandise.

4.   The companies plan to comb their databases of names and market those customers services ranging from discounted merchandise to timeshares to hedge funds.

5.   The two companies plan to comb their databases and cross-market services ranging from discounted merchandise to timeshares to hedge funds to their customers.

6.   Businesses cut production, laid off workers and deeply discounted merchandise.

7.   Companies have laid off workers, trimmed hours and deeply discounted merchandise to work off excess inventories.

8.   Retailers, also coping with the economic slowdown, heavily discounted merchandise and held big pre-Easter holiday sales to rid themselves of stockpiled inventory.

9.   To reduce inventories, companies have laid off workers, reduced shifts to curb production and deeply discounted merchandise.