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...information to customers, conduct e-commerce and create communities for their users. Some industries, like local retail, could be transformed by Twitter - both at one-store operations that cater to customers within a few blocks of their locations and at the individual stores of giant retail operations like Wal-Mart (WMT). In either case, having the opportunity to tell customers about attractive sales and new products can be done at remarkably low cost while providing for greater geographic accuracy...
...felt no reason for it to be seen as confusing, hateful and destructive. The record label [told me], Take it off the album. Rather than do so, I decided to produce it on the inside of the sleeve with a different name, so it'll be sold in Wal-Mart or wherever stores sell guns but are afraid to deal with lyrics. So I put "Pretty as a ($)" because all of their motivations are based on money. (Watch TIME's video from the 2009 SXSW Music Festival...
Experts across the country are exploring a range of potential solutions to the urban health crisis, including creating neighborhood gardens and courting chains like Aldi, Family Dollar and even Wal-Mart to fill the void created by food deserts. But the supermarket industry suffers from especially tight profit margins and is thus particularly risk-averse, so supermarkets' entry into low-income neighborhoods has been slow. Furthermore, many low-end chains are hardly bastions of fresh, healthy produce and meat. (Read a story about Aldi, a grocer for the recession...
...every major drug chain and every major grocery store chain, and I will go on the record and say it's with them contacting us, without our solicitation to them." Bianchi rattles off the list of chains he says have come calling: Walgreens, CVS, Sam's Club, Costco, Wal-Mart, Target, Albertsons, Kroger, Safeway...
...threatened its viability. And yet elsewhere the credit markets seemed downright rosy. The TED spread - a gauge of how willing banks are to lend to each other - hit its lowest point since the beginning of the credit crisis in the summer of 2007, and companies, including Microsoft and Wal-Mart sold a relatively sizeable $32.6 billion of debt to investors...