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There's a slow leak in Jacksonville, and soon it could be as it was during Desert Storm in 1991: a ghost town. Already a flower shop has closed, a car shop has gone under, and a big grocery chain has decided not to build. But for the locals, it feels a little different this time around. A couple of cupfuls short of patriotism. And urgency. And sense. "There's something unpredictable about this war," says Beeda Ruth Wensil, who runs Saigon Sam's, a huge military-surplus store. "The boys don't know where they're gonna...
Takashi Sakamoto might be the most hated man in the Japanese publishing business. The founder and president of Japan's largest used-book store chain, Bookoff, is routinely accused of everything from unfair competition to cheating authors out of their royalties to corrupting Japan's youth. One newspaper recently suggested that his company was a threat to Japanese culture itself, while others charge that he is single-handedly destroying the nation's book industry...
...What's after books and used merchandise? "Ramen shops," he answers. "In this country there's no big ramen chain. It's an industry that could be modernized. Soup is a food you could perfect and duplicate in standardized shops nationwide." Will the name be, um, Soupoff? No, no, he says. It will be something bigger and grander, to reflect his expanding vision. It will be called, he says, World Champion Ramen...
...limit the use of customer loyalty cards, which enable consumers to accumulate points when making purchases and then exchange them for free products. (Such cards are legal elsewhere.) Some retailers are also fighting back. When the euro became legal tender at the beginning of last year, the clothing-store chain C&A, fearing chaos at its tills, gave a 20% discount to German shoppers who paid with credit or debit cards instead of cash for the first four days. German authorities said the discount breached unfair trading laws and a court agreed, fining C&A €1 million...
Commercial and investment banking attracted the largest number of students, drawing 61 men from the finishing class. Manufacturing came next, 26 graduates having chosen this field of industry in which to work. Chain and department stores were third in the list, with a total of 19 men selecting this form of occupation as their work. Teaching as a profession was fourth in popularity among the graduates, 12 men having accepted positions as instructors in the various Business Schools throughout the country. Ten students elected to enter some branch of the army and navy, nine have not been heard from since...