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...against such a strategy. Sales plummeted at the company when Wal-Mart started moving into its strongholds a few years ago. "They sold everything we sold and ran promotions that we could not match," says Jim Jensen, 46, who was managing a 209,000-sq.-ft. Meijer in Howell, Mich., when a Wal-Mart moved in across the street in 2000. Jensen responded with six-hour price specials, supersales and coupons galore, and when those initiatives failed to pull the store out of its death spiral, he got employees to start offering product demonstrations in every department, including fashion shows...
...images as they pass a car are urging lawmakers to curb the road shows. A Tennessee measure banning the display of externally visible, "obscene or patently offensive" video in cars passed the senate last March and is expected to become law on July 1. A councilwoman in Flint, Mich., proposed a similar ordinance last February, but it has been tabled for legal clarification. The Oklahoma statehouse last week passed a "dirty driving" amendment. It was tacked onto a bill that died but will probably be back...
...have done differently, but such actions probably would not have prevented the 9/11 attacks. People would like to pin the responsibility on Bush, but it isn't his fault or Clinton's. They are not the people responsible for those atrocities. That person is bin Laden. WAYNE RENFROE Lansing, Mich...
That brought up Salsgiver, the leadoff hitter. The sophomore from Davison, Mich. roped a single to right-center, scoring Herrmann from second and cutting the deficit...
...kind of thing Flint youths do for fun. For that, Flint-ers become gym rats and head indoors, dreaming of royal green jerseys and imagining themselves with a place in Michigan State’s basketball (and hockey) lore. Other Michiganians—like Brighton (Mich.) High baseball legend and current Dallas Cowboy Drew Henson—eventually give up the gloves and take on other endeavors...