1.   And each year, consumers twiddle their thumbs, waiting for retailers to begin slashing prices.

2.   Because supplies are no longer so tight, Elliot says, retailers have begun to offer discounts on certain brands.

3.   But German retailers are only beginning to adopt the practice of rapid-fire discounting to move slow- selling wares off the shelves.

4.   But gradually giant national retailers began to invade regional markets and steal away customers with better bargains.

5.   By last summer, Kansas City area retailers began noticing a rise in sales of Beanie Babies.

6.   By late August or early September, retailers will begin marking down the first of the slow-selling fall arrivals to make way for fresh merchandise.

7.   Construction of new homes dried up, retailers began feeling pinched as sales slowed and local banks began calling in loans.

8.   Earlier today, the U.K. food and drink industry said retailers will begin voluntary labeling of foods containing genetically modified corn and soybean products, beginning in January.

9.   For months Wall Street has speculated that sporting goods retailers would begin to merge or acquire one another, simply because there are too many of them.

10.   General market retailers began carrying Afrocentric goods, such as kente cloth clothing, that once could only be found in places such as black expos.