West Sacramento city says too many people having too many yard sales.
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David Dillon, a sales and buying assistant at Grebitus and Sons, works on a display window at the Fair Oaks Boulevard store. The 80-year-old family business has another jewelry store in downtown Sacramento. The holiday shopping season is expected to be trying for those in the luxury goods field. Owner Bo Grebitus, left, with watch specialist Adam Quilici, said "the luxury- ...
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Housing areas that saw a lot of foreclosures are starting to see more sales. In Sacramento and Riverside counties in California, sales have been up for the past six months. The same is true in Prince William County in Virginia. Some people wonder whether these pockets of recovery signal a bottom to the housing downturn.
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Prices for oil, corn and wheat have been dropping for months, but food prices in the supermarket are still climbing. Food inflation slowed in October, according to federal figures released Wednesday, but grocery prices are still up 7.5 percent over last year. Combined with the bad economy, the higher cost of eating is changing the way we shop for food – from choosing store labels over ...
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WASHINGTON - Home prices fell in a record four out of five U.S. cities in the third quarter as low-cost foreclosures flooded the market and the U.S. housing market's decline spread throughout the country. Among 152 metropolitan areas included in the trade group's survey, 120 posted declines in median home sales prices compared with a year ago, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday. ...
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The McClatchy Co. Wednesday reported a 17.8 percent drop in October revenue from the year earlier period. The Sacramento newspaper publisher, which owns The Bee, said advertising revenue fell 20.4 percent from a year ago, the worst monthly decline this year. McClatchy blamed the economy for depressing revenue for the month to $176 million. "The economic slowdown continues to hurt consumer ...
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After a four-year organizing campaign by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, workers at Sacramento's Blue Diamond Growers voted by secret ballot Wednesday not to unionize. Workers at the plant voted against unionizing by a margin of more than 2-to-1, according to a tally provided by lead ILWU organizer Agustin Ramirez. The final tally was 353-142, he said. However, Ramirez ...
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Homeowners hoping to sell their houses have been dropping out of the market as foreclosed homes continue to gain buyers’ attention, according to a report of October existing home sales released Tuesday from Trendgraphix Inc., a division of Lyon Real Estate
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Existing house sales and prices in King County and statewide continued to fall in the second quarter, although sales declines slowed, according to a new report.
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A climate still dominated by foreclosures sparked a near doubling of Inland home sales in October compared to a year ago, but median prices dropped more than 35 percent, according to figures released Tuesday by research firm DataQuick Information Systems.
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