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Indeed, says Treasure, without some outside help, retailers often misjudge their customers. In 2005, for example, the Sound Agency swapped nursery rhymes and kiddie pop for relaxed classical music at a chain of British toy shops. The toy chain thought its stores were for kids, says Treasure, and forgot that the spending power belonged to parents who didn't want to be bombarded with Baa Baa Black Sheep. With the new music in place, he claims, sales jumped...
Friends, food and drink are so ingrained as an unholy trinity that the ad slogan for the Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery chain is "Good Friends, Great Food, Great Beer"--all three of which, we now know, make you fat. Apparently in that order...
...While chains like Whole Foods are making inroads across the U.S., independent, non-union grocery stores are proliferating too, and many lag on labor standards. On June 19, for example, the New York State Labor Department learned of potential labor violations at one of the grocery stores in the Manhattan-based Amish Market chain. The Department sent investigators to all 11 of the chain's outposts, and the preliminary findings suggested minimum wage, overtime and tip-credit violations, according to Commissioner Patricia Smith - charges that Amish Market downplayed, calling the investigation routine...
LOOKING AHEAD When the fast-food chain opened in 1955, the largest soda was 7 oz. (about 200 mL). McDonald's execs defend Hugo, six times the size of the original, as just a summer promotion...
There is one more link in this extraordinary chain of human connection. By contributing to Millennium Promise's You+Village campaign millenniumpromise.org you can fortify Mbola and other villages and follow each step of their progress. You can become a partner with the poor of Africa in the most exciting and realistic possibility of our time: the end of extreme poverty...