Word: gorilla
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...million for a Colorado vitamin business that proved a bust, and it made a costly foray into Internet retailing. But those missteps have helped Whole Foods executives hone their strategy: to create a "supernatural" giant that can withstand the challenge from both conventional chains and the 500-pound gorilla called Wal-Mart, which is selling ever more low-priced organic fare...
...moment Zhao Wei, who has acted with Jiang twice in the past six months, confides, "I don't like this kind of man. He's too strong." And, she says, he isn't pretty either. "Everybody's face looks like some animal," she jokes. "Jiang's looks like a gorilla...
...movies like Nice Guys Sleep Alone--which couldn't get distribution but did get picked up by hbo after its success on Netflix. "Where we're really powerful is the non-Top 100 films," says Hastings. "We're trying to stay out of the way of the 800-lb. gorilla...
...moment, the gorilla is returning the favor. While it eliminated 25% of its VHS tapes last year, Blockbuster also saw a 160% rise in DVD rentals. The company thinks most consumers don't plan their rentals in advance--they do it on impulse, the same way they buy Milk Duds at the register. But that doesn't mean they'll always think that way. "If we can figure out a way to make money doing what Netflix does, we'll do it," says Blockbuster vice president Ed Stead...
...most of the way down Lansdowne Street, new arrivals joined the line outside the entrance to Bill’s Bar, a good 50 yards or more from Avalon. As the line shuffled its way towards the door, the thumping sound of the opening set by DJ and founding Gorilla Dan “The Automator” Nakamura throbbed out on to the street. Inside, the crowd was as hip, diverse and giddy as the band’s eponymous debut album: slightly ostentatious, but mostly with a self-deprecating sense of humor. As Nakamura?...