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This complex chemistry of means, needs and expectations makes for some contradictory behavior. This Christmas, high-end stores and discount outlets are having the best season: stores in the middle are struggling. It seems that most consumers are engaged in a constant, personalized cost-benefit analysis. If they feel they got a good enough bargain at the Price Club on toilet paper or dog food, they allow themselves the Starbucks confection that costs four times as much as a regular cup of coffee...
...looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, chances are...The newly-renovated Coop book building, which opened Friday after extensive renovations, features the same signs, discount stickers and display shelves used in Barnes and Noble superstores nationwide. But that's just fine with us. The new Coop, like its official Barnes & Noble cousins, is tasteful, convenient and well-stocked-a welcome addition to the heart of Harvard Square...
...Airborne was going to get," says Wilmington Mayor Nick Eveland, "we might not have been so welcoming." As Airborne grew, so did Rombach Avenue, the commercial strip that links the overnight-mail complex to downtown. Rombach became "Hamburger Alley," a neon riot of fast-food outlets and discount retailers like Wal-Mart. Eveland, who has held the part-time mayoral post since 1984, now says he wishes Wilmington had imposed design standards on Hamburger Alley to limit the blight, but at the time he feared doing so would slow the town's progress. By 1995, as the Alley spread west...
Michael J. Young, owner of Mall Discount Liquors, located at the Fresh Pond Shopping Center, agreed that the Cops in Shops program has been successful...
...Saturday morning at 6:25 (reservation-only), 7:20, and 9:05 (reservation-only). Trains return to Boston at various times Saturday night and Sunday. The total cost for the two-and-a-half to three-hour trip ranges from $64 to $75. Amtrak offers a 15 percent discount to Student Advantage cardholders...