21. The report said clearance sales were going well with less discounting than in the year before. 22. In slashing prices to lure shoppers for clearance sales , retailers can sometimes squeeze their profit margins. 23. Part of the expected June gain will come from improving weather and part from clearance sales . 24. Clearance sales boosted retail businesses, the survey said.25. Sales were helped by after-Christmas clearance sales and severe blizzards that left shoppers at home last year. 26. Archeologists warn of a cultural clearance sale . 27. Instead, go for the deals and the clearance sales first and then take care of returns later. 28. But as a movie, " Inspector Gadget " is like a toy destined for a clearance sale . 29. He filled Piers Court with his acquisitions, often from London's Portobello Market and from house clearance sales . 30. Virtually every major department store chain had advertised clearance sales -- much of it summer and fall merchandise.