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...strategy of trading up, is now entrusting a big chunk of his business to the man who popularized the phrase. The trick, generally speaking, is to reposition things that are essentially commodities (coffee, sandwiches, vodka) by convincing the mass market that it needs a better version (Starbucks, Panera Bread, Grey Goose). Scarcity is stripped from the equation: in the new luxury math, there is a Starbucks on every corner and a Bath & Body Works in every suburban shopping mall...
...airline industry is reaching new lows. These facts taken together are rather disconcerting. With increasing competition from smaller airlines, many large companies are scaling back to save money. The question is, where are they scaling back? Now, we don’t mind missing out on a stale bread roll or two, but if airplane maintenance and thus safety are in any way shortchanged, well, we’re dead...
AirTran, based in Orlando, Fla., may stand to gain more from the looming industry restructuring, particularly a Delta bankruptcy, than any other carrier. For one thing, AirTran's bread-and-butter routes are in the eastern U.S.--where Delta and others will probably trim the number of flights and raise fares. Says Leonard: "We've been sitting here quietly for the past five years minding our own business and making money, but if three airlines pull down capacity as expected, that will be even better for AirTran...
...telltales of want ... Foreign observers of U.S. urban riots are frequently stunned at the vigor of the American poor. How, they wonder, can a looter claim to be hungry and oppressed, yet walk off with a color-television set as easily as if he were hefting a loaf of bread? ... While no region has a monopoly on poverty, the South comes the closest. Virtually half of America's poor live in the 16 Southern and border states, an area that holds less than a third of the total U.S. population. Moreover, the South is the spawning ground for much...
...confronted disturbing images from New Orleans, some bloggers had their eyes on the captions. Two photos emerged as symbols of the race and class undercurrents in Katrina's aftermath. In the one below, a black person is described as "looting" a grocery store; the white people above are "finding" bread and soda from a store. WONKETTE posted both shots and sardonically asked readers to match the two captions. Then XRLQ cried foul because the photos were from different news agencies, AP and Agence France Presse...