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Retailing Tips: Ordering for Christmas

While everyone else gets ready for summer, specialty toy-store owners are placing their big Christmas orders. But are you too late? Some say yes. And some say Christmas is on their minds year-round.

Find out how other toy-store owners avoid some of the pitfalls of getting the right products — and avoiding the wrong ones — during the most important selling season of all in the May issue of TDmonthly.

Writer's Bio: Terri Hughes-Lazzell is a freelance journalist based in Ossian, Ind. After spending nearly a decade as a daily newspaper reporter, she has worked as a freelance journalist for more than ten years, writing about a variety of topics. Her work appears in newspapers, magazines and specialty publications nationwide. Read more articles by this author

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