Word: emporium
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Broadway Street Market is an excellent grocery store. Edward W. Ring will tell you so, but then he's co-manager of Ring Brothers Farm Market, one of the Broadway emporium's three tenants. Charles C. Bougas, co-manager of New England Meat Market, another tenant, says...
...when they are grownups but kids at heart, they gravitate to the Warner Studio Stores. At a Warner outlet a few steps from the Disney emporium in Atlanta's Lenox Square shopping complex, the place is crawling with twentysomethings. At the back of the store, children can climb into Marvin's Rocket Ride and take a push-button blast through the solar system; but kids are scarce here: 85% of the customers are adults. Heather Bamberg, 24, forages until she finds a gift for her godchild: a cap with the Tasmanian Devil logo. More often, though, Bamberg shops for herself...
Judging from my behavior this spring break (didn't "go anywhere", lots of "popular culture" some anxiety about my lack of role models, survival on groceries charged to my parents' Food Emporium courtesy card), I doubtless comprise a member of the "Reality Bites" target audience. Like so many to those who surround me, I am young, bright and disenchanted without really knowing with what or why. I can't watch "Oprah" or "House of Style" without making cynical comments: wisecracks culled form my vastly broad, yet miserably shallow vocab...
...Ashley Judd) is a high-school graduate who leaves her native Tennessee town--a place she claims she was lucky to escape without getting beat up or pregnant--to start a new life in Panama Beach City, Florida. She quickly finds a job selling souvenirs at Chamber's Beach Emporium and has a quick fling with the manager's heartthrob, fast-lane-living son Ricky. Ruby senses immediately that he is just the sort of guy she left Tennessee to escape and quickly regroups to examine her priorities. The film is narrated with excerpts from Ruby's diary, which records...
Leonard, who faces up to five years in prison, has agreed to pay $15 million in restitution. He also confronts new charges by the state of Connecticut that his emporium short-weighted hundreds of food packages. Even so, nobody expects Leonard's fall from grace to hamper the business. "We were packed today," chirps son Stew Jr. "Our customers are extremely supportive and sympathetic." And at Stew's, the customer is always right. It says so on the three-ton tablet of granite at the store's entrance. And it's firmly believed by the hundreds of positive-thinking Dale...