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...travelers looking for a little more flair at the baggage-claim area, luggage maker Samsonite seems to have come up with the perfect solution: an eight-piece customized line of luggage called Black Label Couture. "When Samsonite started in 1910, travel was a luxury only accessible to a select few," says Samsonite's creative director, Quentin Mackay. "As a result, luggage was a luxurious purchase. In those days we offered a service of customization...
Nowadays travel is accessible to most everyone, and the current boom in the luxury-goods business has given Samsonite reason to revisit its roots. When shopping for Black Label Couture, customers can choose the lining, trim, hardware and thread that will be used to make their bags--a total of more than 2,000 different possible combinations, including unconventional materials like velvet, alligator and patent leather. With the aid of computer technology, sales associates can show customers what their creation will look like as they style it. Depending on the materials and style, prices range from...
Each customizable radio service has its own way of assessing what you like. Pandora refers to its database of more than 600,000 major-label songs--all of which have been categorized by musical attributes such as voice, tonality and chromatic harmony--then serves up similar-sounding tracks. That can get a little monotonous, so Slacker, which launched in March, uses professional DJs to dream up constantly changing playlists that give you more variety while still adhering to your basic tastes. If you ask for Gwen Stefani, for example, you'll also get the Cars, Talking Heads and Bj?...
...teens, a computerized system in each outlet spits out prices for popular brands like Abercrombie & Fitch, Baby Phat and Seven. There's even a guide to help workers determine the age of, say, a pair of shorts from the Gap on the basis of the styling of the label. (Plato's won't take anything more than a year old.) Owned by the Minneapolis-based Winmark Corp., Plato's has opened some 200 franchises since 1999. The company rang up more than $100 million in sales in 2006 and plans to open 35 additional stores this year. Winmark collects...
Nobody will admit to actually liking DRM. Consumers feel retailers are treating them like potential copyright criminals. Retailers say they use DRM only because the labels make them. The labels blame us, the customers, for being such filthy music pirates. And around we go. Steve Jobs even swore that he would de-DRM every track on iTunes if only the labels would let him. (Jobs did broker a deal with one label, EMI, to sell DRM-free music, with higher audio quality. But it'll cost ya: DRM-free tracks will go for $1.29 vs. the standard 99¢.) Amazon...