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...think of Wal-Mart as a huge pipe organ with thousands of stops that executives constantly pull and push. Early on the day after Thanksgiving 2001, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, the system was reporting slow sales of a boxed computer-and-printer combo for which merchandisers had had high hopes. But one location was bucking the trend. A quick call from headquarters determined that the store manager had cut open one of the stacked cartons so shoppers could see they got both machines for one price. Soon a message went to all other stores: open...
...buyers began to analyze the numbers. Now there are 288 of them. One can think of Wal-Mart as a huge pipe organ with thousands of stops. On a busy shopping day in November 2001, the system was reporting slow sales of a boxed computer-and-printer combo for which merchandisers had had high hopes. But one location was bucking the trend. A quick call from headquarters determined that the store manager had cut open one of the stacked cartons so shoppers could see they got both machines for one price. Soon a message went to all other stores: Open...
...accident. She doesn’t take bullshit from anybody and she has always been like that.” Limitations, however, are something new. “When she was a freshman I don’t think there was anything that limited her except maybe her printer. She was always complaining about that,” Graves says...
...parties soon regretted. Swenson recalls the encounter between his mother and his filth-covered single in Cabot House, saying “I think the last straw was the fungus-covered beer stein still half-full of Pabst...or maybe it was the melted Twix bar on my printer.” Swenson’s mother fell over in her haste to leave, slipping on a used condom...
Phoebe Gloeckner is one of comix' most challenging artists. The company contracted to print her last book, "A Child's Life," refused to do it. The subsequent printer would only work on it at night with a staff who had read the book and did not object to it. With its raw, uncompromising tales of a young girl's experiences with sex, drugs, and neglect, told in a devastatingly clinical style, "A Child's Life" was a highlight of 1990s graphic literature. Gloeckner has since mostly dedicated herself to creating a single, book-length project. Finally arriving in November...