Word: retailing
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...this day, Stone loves talking about flying around in little airplanes and working events in tiny churches in the “retail politics” of the New Hampshire primary...
Meanwhile, silly ideas spawned brilliant web-based businesses. Perhaps the single most life-changing example was Kozmo.com, the company that sold you cigarettes, Sour Patch Kids, and Swanson frozen dinners at retail-competitive prices while still managing to have them delivered to your door within an hour. Hundreds of Harvard students drove the Boston operation by incessantly ordering $3 of candy every evening before Seinfeld reruns came...
Take a few numbers from the export column and a few statistics from the retail sales column, put them together, and presto! You've got yourself an economic recovery in long-suffering Japan. At least that's the rosy scenario painted by government leaders desperate to shore up their sagging popularity. The trouble is that to Japanese, the calculations look suspiciously like voodoo economics. "If the economy is getting better, we sure don't feel it," says 59-year-old Kinuyo Otsu while passing a Christian Dior shop in Tokyo's Shinjuku district. "Our husbands' jobs aren't stable enough...
...Meanwhile, retail sales in Japan have momentarily stopped declining. This week, the country's gdp figures from the initial quarter are expected to show growth for the first time since January-March 2001. "The evidence is pretty clear that [the economy] has bottomed out," says a usually bearish Richard Katz, editor of The Oriental Economist newsletter...
...million credit-card statements every month--an easy way to distribute special offers on, say, a Lands' End golf shirt. "The two companies' strategies have been very different, but if they can leverage each other's strengths, you'll have a very powerful combination," says James Crawford, retail analyst for Forrester Research. Of course, that's what everyone said about AOL and Time Warner, so perhaps some caution is in order...