Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Changes are on view at your now friendly post office, or should we say postal retail outlet. Some 700 of the system's 33,000 post offices have morphed from bank-vault blandness into boutiques that sell such items as hats, neckties and Bugs Bunny trinkets while still providing a full line of postal services. The truly postally obsessed can choose a Pony Express sweatshirt or infant gear emblazoned with the words JUST DELIVERED. And customers are buying. "When a store replaces a post office, there is more than a 10% increase in revenues," says Nancy Wood, a postal-marketing...
...Jones may solve part of that strategic problem by taking a second stab at television, another distribution outlet where it has fared badly. The company is expected to announce a deal this week with CNBC under which it would provide Dow Jones' business news to the CNBC and MSNBC cable channels. Earlier this year, Dow Jones launched WBIS+ in New York City with ITT. But ITT forced a sale of the station after that company became the target of a hostile takeover by Hilton Hotels. "Our New York television adventure can only be described as a detour," says Dow Jones...
...commercial filmed in a Moscow outlet this week, the former Soviet leader smiles with as much dignity as he can muster while customers conclude that his crowning achievement is their access to America?s favorite pie. ?They had to work hard to persuade Gorbachev to do the ad,? says TIME's Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier, ?because he knows how humiliating it is. But his foundation desperately needs the money...
...like Saks' off 5th, T.J. Maxx and Marshalls. Throw in a couple hundred specialty stores. Add a giant Marriott-managed food court as well as theme eateries such as Puck's and Rainforest Cafe. Stir in razzmatazz such as Ogden Entertainment's American Wilderness Experience, a combination restaurant, retail outlet and enviro-amusement park; or GameWorks, the virtual-reality video-game arcade created by Sega, DreamWorks SKG and Universal Studios. "To win in this business you must offer vibrancy and value to fight the pervasive boredom of shopping," says Ian Duffell, CEO of Virgin Entertainment Group, which counts Ontario Mills...
...business ventures, his poetry and his habits. New Directions, the publishing house he founded while still a sophomore at Harvard, gave meager advances but brought to the world's attention Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Henry Miller and many other authors who had struggled to find an outlet with mainstream houses. Although he proudly claimed he had never given an advance of more than $10,000, he regularly lent money to writers who had fallen on hard times. Laughlin was a pioneer in the world of sport, founding Alta, a ski area in Utah beloved for its light powder...