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...market analyst at Salomon Smith Barney, traces it to the stock market's wealth effect. "People have money," he says. "Why wouldn't they spend it?" If you're sitting on stock worth twice your dreams, it's unlikely that higher rates will keep you out of the mall. And consider: more folks can sell stock and pay cash for a boat, a car, even a house. If they don't have to borrow, interest rates are immaterial...
Congratulations would be a waste of time, however. Some of those "satisfied" shoppers may have been willing to put up with a few snags because they were spared a trip to the mall. After all, the leading reason people shop online is to avoid crowds. More important, today's online shoppers have seen what a three-year veteran like Amazon.com can do. They recognize a good site and good service. And they will expect the same and more from everybody else. E-tailers who want to survive long-term will have to do better. Much better...
Especially in a thriving intellectual community like Cambridge, ideally the surroundings would effect a collegiate feel. But as the Square slowly becomes just another incarnation of the suburban strip mall, will we mourn the change? Perhaps next year the Bow and Arrow Pub, along with the Dunkin' Donuts, will just exist in the minds of upperclass students as first-years wander the brick sidewalks looking for "that bar in Good Will Hunting...
...watch coverage of her "death" on tabloid TV ("A small-town girl makes it big and then small again"). He, a producer of Bruckheimeresque action flicks (e.g., Bel Air PI) starring guns, aliens and lame one-liners, once walked away--literally--from his life and possessions, wandering the strip-mall wilderness, Dumpster diving for burgers...
Around 5:15 p.m. on Christmas Eve, police allege that Chatelain and a friend encountered Correia and four others in the mall parking garage...