41.   Now, the large retailers are starting to listen to his proposals, Kim said.

42.   One Axciom executive said it could cost a large retailer that sells through a traditional store, a catalog and the Web more than a million dollars to implement.

43.   One threat is pressure on profit margins as large retailers such as Office Depot Inc. and CompUSA Inc. demand discounts.

44.   Opportunities are also expected for industrial companies like General Motors or large retailers like Walmart that operate in sectors where barriers to entry have been common.

45.   Others, like Sogo and Nagasakiya, two large retailers, have essentially collapsed, effectively passing their problems on to their banks.

46.   Only a handful of large retailers favor the proposal to keep the Internet exempt from sales taxes.

47.   Separately, the Commerce Department said that after-tax profits for large retailers in the second quarter lagged behind the same period last year.

48.   Several large retailers in Kansas City were sold out of the toys earlier this month.

49.   Some large retailers -- J.C. Penney Co., Federated Department Stores Inc. and Limited Inc. -- said sales fell, mostly because Easter came two weeks earlier this year.

50.   Some large Michigan retailers like Meijer have reverse vending machines that read the bar code on a container and pay money for the can with a Michigan code.