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...stores. Instead of blogging or just complaining, Feuti created a comic strip, Retail, now syndicated in 43 newspapers, depicting the staff at the fictional department store Grumbel's. Feuti is an equal-opportunity scold. His strip features not just the customers chatting on their cell phones in the checkout line but also the clerks who work only for the employee discount and the managers obsessed with the employee dress code. "People aren't even aware of their own behavior," Feuti says. "Maybe they'll finally realize if they see it in print...
...discussions like this, there's a phenomenon where technopundits wear Global Business Network blinkers. The democratization of available avenues of possibility is always phrased in market-friendly terms. It's about purchasing power--the cornucopia of options available to those who can stuff their shopping carts and proceed to checkout. How many options were available to those who were marooned in New Orleans? The ragtag who are rotting in what used to be quaintly called the real world, somewhere off-line, are left behind...
...Last Brother by Joe McGinnis. Who is this character with a famous name and a mind marinated in platitudes? Certainly not pure fiction, which might have been convincing, but a lifeless creature born out of New Journalism and the checkout-counter culture. Bad novel and bad biography, The Last Brother gives twice as little for the money...
...ideas sounded good, but no sooner had he got them going than the whole system began to buckle under the sheer crush of patients--particularly extremely ill ones, who required so much care that they left doctors unable to help healthier people. To fix that, Darkoh turned to checkout-line models that Wal-Mart helped pioneer, instituting what amounted to an express lane for people in need of just testing or medication and a slow lane for the gravely...
...Colón has stayed out of the dispute while his agriculture secretary attempts to negotiate a "painless" takeover of April-Agro. If that happens, Demel and his supporters believe, Puerto Rico will lose its best chance of reversing nearly a century of standing in line at someone else's checkout counters. --By John S. DeMott. Reported by Harold J. Lidin/San Juan