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...retailer to turn a profit. Of the 600 company-owned stores due to close, some 70% were opened since October 2005, and most have another store in close proximity. Starbucks's strategy of cannibalizing its own sales - a store loses about 25% to 30% of its revenue when another outlet opens down the block - works when customers keep streaming in, but once foot traffic slows, as it has over the past year, it is much more difficult to still make money at both stores. Taken as a group, the 600 stores, which are spread across all major markets, aren...
...with any electric car is the strength of its battery, and GEM has a good one. You can drive for up to 30 miles on a single charge, and repowering the battery takes six to eight hours, using any standard outlet. A GEM won't win a drag race - maximum speed is 25 mph, though with a surprising amount of pep. I took a four-seat GEM for a test ride through New York City's Central Park. Check out my experience here...
...College Theatre, which took the place of the old Hasty Pudding Theatre on Holyoke Street this October, provides one such outlet. The 272-seat theatre features state-of-the-art lighting, a mechanized orchestra pit, and a rehearsal and performance space as large as its main stage. Its location, Faust observed in remarks at the Theatre’s opening, “literally and figuratively made arts more central at the University...
...four years at Harvard come to a close and nostalgia sets in, Im forced to think about what I have enjoyed and what I would have done differently. Fortunately, the latter list remains small. Sportswriting, though, ranks highly on the enjoyable list.The Crimson Sports board provided me with an outlet to turn my sports passion into a piece of artwork—all with a group of friends sharing that enthusiasm with me.Harvard has given me some amazing opportunities. Sportswriting was one of them. While it’s hard to enjoy every minute of every game, it?...
After next Friday, Bostonians will finally have their own outlet for their Apple woes and whims. A new Apple Store, expected by some online bloggers to be the largest in the world, is set to open on Boylston Street, where local businesses expect it will have an impact on neighborhood commerce. A large green wooden cover, announcing the upcoming opening in colors reminiscent of local favorite Fenway Park, hides what will be a three-story glass facade. Harvard students expressed little interest in the alternative to the Cambridgeside Galleria location. “I haven?...