cheap prices translate into a high ...

cheap prices translate into a high rate of increase for one of retail's hottest niches

"A poor man requires a bargain and a rich man be enamoured ofs one," says Carleton Meyer president of Factory exit Consultants in Burke, Va.

This, according to Meyer explains the continuing putting out of the factory exit center, where manufacturers sell their wares directly to customers, frequently at substantially reduced prices.

While exit centers account for only a small portion of the total retail pie ($74 billion in U sales last year or a fraction of what Wal-Mart earned for the