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...Pittsburgh suburb, where his father was a car upholsterer. An avid basketball player, Cuban wanted a fancy pair of Puma sneakers, but his dad wouldn't pay. So Cuban, then 12, sold garbage bags door to door to raise the cash. He was a box boy at the local grocer and worked the meat slicer at a deli and at the canteen at a summer camp. To pay his way through Indiana University, he gave disco-dancing lessons, rented the Bloomington National Guard Armory for dances and bought and ran a bar. He earned his junior-year expenses with...
...Asian retailers call it dirty pool. Cluttered neighborhood grocery stores, dingy street-front shops and noisy central-market stalls that have long served the region's consumers are no match for the modern, monolithic superstores. Boonyoong, the Bangkok grocer, can't beat superstore prices and selection and never will. Mom-and-pop operations have no economies of scale. "I was thinking my business might be in trouble when Tesco Lotus first opened," says Boonyoong. "Today I know...
...stocks of nearly all Internet retailers look like piranha leftovers these days, so it's not surprising that Tuesday's news about Webvan didn't make much of a splash in Silicon Valley's blood-soaked waters. Still, the once-mighty online grocer deserves some kind of award: for most audacious attempt to keep its head above the snapping fish, perhaps. Or maybe the George Foreman award for not knowing when to quit...
...grocer beams in to tell me there's a special shipment of organic beef. It's contraband, but I'll take it! Ever since the Mad Cow Plague finding real beef has been impossible...
...perfectly possible that this one little boy grew up to make millions and to become a miser who never donated a penny to anything (except to the campaigns of politicians like Congressman Chris Cox of California) and to raise his own son on stories of the one kindly grocer who was never paid for the milk and the tomato soup. So why shouldn't the son, after a lonely but very comfortable life, leave instructions in the will for his lawyers to track down the descendants of that one kindly grocer and give them the entire estate...