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...case of Kozmo, we know the business might have succeeded with different management because we have a control case. In Los Angeles, there is a small, private company called PDQuick (formerly Pink Dot), which has been around since 1987—a lot longer than the Web. The company delivers groceries and prepared meals to the Los Angeles area and is currently looking to expand nationally. Even before the Web—Pink Dot took orders through an 800 number before launching its web site—the company found a way to be profitable. Its solution? Grow slowly. Pink...
...little too well, leaving our premises too funky after bacchanalian nights spent on the skin. Now LINOLEUM RUGS offer a wipeable alternative that is as aesthetically pleasing and frankly sexual as its endangered counterpart. Created by L.A. painter Christopher Stearns, the linoleum rugs come in a variety of grid, dot and zigzag patterns. Jack Nicholson and Phil Collins have had intricate hand-cut floors inlaid. Perhaps, like us, they've always found cuddling on linoleum before an open hearth irresistibly romantic...
...Amid the dot-com wreckage, travel bookings are turning out to be one thing the Web is very, very good at. With all the efficiencies of instant price comparison and the one-stop plane, hotel and rental-car shopping that Expedia and its main competitor, Travelocity, offer, tech tracker Forrester Research estimates that U.S. sales will reach $16.7 billion this year and $29 billion...
...Well, Amazon can still bellwether with the best of them, at least emotionally. After the bubble-all-over-its-face dot-com boldly preannounced Monday that it had lost less money (and sold more stuff) in the first quarter than anybody expected, suddenly anything looks possible. Could Motorola, or E*Trade (after the bell Tuesday) pleasantly surprise too? Could Yahoo (Wednesday?) tell us the web advertising market isn't quite a death sentence...
...RAGS Into the breach: the Peace Corps, which has been trolling this wasteland with ads in a San Francisco weekly reading, "Dot-Com, Dot-Gone? Now it's time to Network with the real world: Peace Corps." Though it seems like a curious population to target, applications in the area to join the corps have doubled...