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Amazingly, every H&M store is restocked daily. A high-volume store like the Boulevard Haussmann flagship in Paris can receive as many as three truckloads of clothing a day. The bulk of the restocking is done between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., so there's almost a science to shopping H&M. Experienced bargain hunters learn that the store displays two of every size at a time. When the mediums are sold out, for example, there will be more the next morning. Employees advise friends to come Tuesday to Friday mornings, within hours of the restocking...
Experts are skeptical. "Young people don't need the help," says Rachel Greenwald, author of the best-selling How to Find a Husband After 35 Using What I Learned at Harvard Business School. "The bulk of people needing a matchmaker are women over 30--really, over 40. And for them, there's a problem of supply and demand." She's right. According to the Census Bureau, for those in their 20s and 30s, there are 115 unmarried men for every 100 unmarried women; that drops to 69 for every 100 in the 45-to-64 age bracket. A much better...
...Privatizing Posthaste Royal Mail's 300-year-old state monopoly on Britain's postal services will end in April when it starts delivering bulk mail collected by courier Business Post. Germany's Deutsche Post is one of several companies looking for a similar slice of its business...
...costs have to be cut or their farms won’t be able to compete. Recent market deregulation in West Africa abolished fixed cocoa prices that once protected the region’s farmers. Now, the price is determined on world commodity markets. Small farmers, who produce the bulk of the world’s cocoa, are particularly vulnerable to volatile world prices. The cocoa purchasing system is also skewed in favor of traders and middlemen—farmers generally see little of the increased profit when chocolate prices rise. According to the European Fair Trade Association...
...calling yesterday’s “town meeting,” Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby wrote to professors that the “bulk of the meeting will be devoted to a discussion of proposals...