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Recent Examples of job lotWhere some other towns operating similar schemes have put together a job lot of houses for €1, Castiglione di Sicilia is pricing the properties according to their condition.—Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
For stores, these codes help streamline the checkout process, reduce pricing errors, and help with inventory.
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Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
27 Jan. 2026
Median single-family home sale price is $409,500 Many would-be homebuyers have been priced out of the market due to constraints on inventory, prices that have surged over the last five years and elevated mortgage rates.
And yet, neither couple can help but dig themselves deeper and deeper, which is where the cottage stuff comes in.
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Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
31 Jan. 2026
Joelie Fetterman, a personal shopper and stylist at Saks Fifth Avenue in Boca Raton, agreed that most South Floridians should be able to make do over the next few days with stuff lodged deep in their drawers.
Metals from copper to aluminum have powered higher in the opening weeks of 2026, as global investors pile into industrial commodities in bets on tighter supply, a weaker US dollar, and Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts.
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Bloomberg News,
Bloomberg,
28 Jan. 2026
Financial reality is often presented as comfortable in an Instagram post, or a quick tweet where the reality of the artist is the commodity being sold.
Here, vendors and growers sell produce, baked goods, herbs, flowers, and other local creations.
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Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Jan. 2026
Last year’s changes among the states were significant because population growth brings more taxpayers, economic dynamism and demand for goods and services.