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...very cool concept, one that founder Jay Walker predicts will eventually eliminate price-tag shopping. Never mind that fixed pricing in one form or another has been around since the time of Xerxes for a reason: people like it. As Walker points out, though, myriad products--from FedEx shipping, where rates increase with the speed of delivery, to groceries bought with coupons--fall into the variable-price category. Thus Walker argues that he is merely pushing an already flexible system to its logical extreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Be Your Own Barcode | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...menagerie of squabbling relatives. The beleaguered breadwinner in Sea Oak works as a male stripper at Joysticks, a club with an aviation motif, and notes of his lodgings, "At Sea Oak there's no sea and no oak, just a hundred subsidized apartments and a rear view of FedEx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hapless Heroes | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...once, his feet in the same place for only a millisecond. Then he makes the swift shot or the quick pass, or he's above the rim crashing the ball through the hoop--as he did in game three against the Raptors--with grimacing passion. If only the FedEx guy delivered with such drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free to be Spree | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

...NAME, TEAM] Bill Razzouk, PlanetRx.com [FORMER TEAM] FedEx [PEAK*] $63 million [CURRENT**] $6 million [INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS] Remedy sales on Net still unhealthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Score: Who's Rich Now? | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...Orleans for distributing the drug. Two weeks ago in Providence, R.I., a seven-month investigation into ecstasy dealing ended with the arrest of 23. In bigger cities, the trade has exploded. In December the U.S. Customs Service discovered 100 lbs. of ecstasy shipped from France to the FedEx headquarters in Memphis. The agents followed the drug's intended trail to L.A. and found a staggering 1.2 million tablets, worth $30 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All The Rave | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

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