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...Porter's Five Forces graphic courtesy of www.bized.co.uk...
Sushi grade octopus will no longer be a T ride away come May 10, when the Japanese grocer Kotobukiya will be forced out of its lease in Porter Square, according to the store’s assistant manager...
...grocer sells a variety of authentic Japanese food items, cookware, and magazines in the Porter Square Exchange Mall, part of Lesley University. The space is shared by a variety of small Asian eateries, such as Cafe Mami, Sapporo Ramen, and Tampopo...
...hard to replace that sort of old craft,” Walo said. In the 19th century, when the houses were constructed, Massachusetts Avenue was the most prestigious street in Cambridge, said Charles M. Sullivan, the executive director of the Cambridge Historical Commission. Merchants, who traveled through the Porter Square railroad station, contributed to the wealth of the area. At one point, 69 wood-front mansions lined the avenue, Sullivan said. But the area began to become more commercial in the early 1900s as the city’s population grew. According to Sullivan, there were no apartments or stores...
...airport, my babbling taxi driver kept one hand (barely) on the steering wheel while his other shoved a stack of local currency, the som, into my face. He insistently urged me to trade the money for dollars. After checking in at the grim Hotel Uzbekistan, a nattily clad porter showed me and my wife to a room, fiddled with a broken TV set, and then reached into his jacket pockets for large bricks of som. He, too, persistently begged me for greenbacks. In Uzbekistan, the dollar ruled...