Even though we are in a global recession, the largest retailers in the world still found a way to increase sales by 5.5% in the 2008 fiscal year, which ended in June, according to a Deliotte Touche Tohmatsu report. But at the same time, profitability fell from 3.7% to 2.4%, the report says. And of that...

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