layaway

For a $5 service fee and a refundable $10 cancellation fee, customers were able to layaway presents without going deeper in debt.

And layaway is now taking online orders for Valentine's Day jewellery, just as many neighbourhood jewellery stores once did.

But layaway fell out of favor during the last decade as lower-income Americans gained access to credit.

That day my mother picked me up early from daycare because we were going to Sears & Roebuck to pay on a Christmas Layaway.

That day my mother picked me up early from daycare for we were going to Sears & Roebuck to pay on a Christmas Layaway.

But K-Mart, another huge chain, which never dropped the service, recently made layaway the centrepiece of its festive-season advertising.

Administering a layaway programme also presents challenges for modern retailers' inventory and sales management systems, Ms Hoffman adds.

Nevertheless, as a financing option, layaway is decidedly worse than most credit cards.

Layaway makes sense, he says, when an item is scarce and consumers do not have access to adequate credit.

One fledgling e-commerce company is betting that layaway will gain in popularity amid a deepening recession.

There is a mandatory ten percent down on all layaway items.

He confessed one night that he was buying, on layaway, a Hebrew Bible from the sixteenth century.

There's historical precedent for such killing on layaway.

With rates like that, why would anyone participate in layaway?

Wal-Mart, for instance, closed its layaway programme in 2006.

And if shoppers couldn't pay the layaway, the store could resell the goods.

She buys her Xmas presents on layaway.

Financial hard times have brought back many people's layaway purchases.

Yo mama so poor she went to McDonald's and put a milkshake on layaway.

bought a suit on layaway.

It charges customers 1. 9 per cent to take part in a layaway-type system for items that include flat-screen televisions and refrigerators.

Does this store have a layaway plan?