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...customers in California, 70% recognized the Gigante name. Besides a wider and more authentic selection of Mexican products, Gigante also boasts prices that are on average 15% lower than those at traditional supermarkets. Gigante can afford to charge less, thanks in part to lower labor costs. Under its union contract signed last year, check-out clerks make $10.29 an hour, compared with $17.90 at major California chains; Gigante's meatcutters make $7 an hour less than their counterparts at other union markets. These concessions from the United Food and Commercial Workers--with 165,000 members, the largest private union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh from The Border | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...delphinium at shopping.msn.com might see a colorful ad--maybe a pop-up, maybe just text and a photo--for a specific offer ("One Dozen Roses! $29.99"). All told, Proflowers pays in the low to mid-seven figures for a year's worth of portal ads. Depending on the contract, it might share a piece of the action or pay a bounty for each customer who clicks through. The conversion rate--the percentage of those who click through and complete a transaction during the same visit--sometimes reaches only the high single digits, Strauss says, but the click-through traffic shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Commerce: Cruising the Online Mall | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...told that Coca-Cola terminated your contract after the accident. Actually, we're re-signing it now. I have seven commercials on hand, and I'm going to produce songs for Twins, Karen Mok and a few other guys. I also have 12 movie scripts. What's funny is that the money that's going to me has gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 questions for Nicholas Tse | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

Since the last contract expired, the union and university have been agreeing to stopgap monthly contracts while negotiating for the long-term...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Yale, Unions Sticking Together | 3/7/2003 | See Source »

...Laura Smith, president of Local 34, said there are “no good contract offers on the table from Yale...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Yale, Unions Sticking Together | 3/7/2003 | See Source »

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