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...refineries to keep cranking out that go juice. Some analysts are optimistic - without widespread problems at refineries, they say, there should be plenty of gas to go around, easing pump prices back to traditional summer levels by late July. (U.S. retail prices averaged $1.63 a gallon last week, 19 cents higher than in March and already above the $1.52 a gallon that the Energy Department had previously forecast for June...
...buck. But thanks to loose laws, loose women and dirty officials, you can get anything you want: cheap labor, even cheaper Prada bags, pirated DVDs, ecstasy pills, one-night stands. (And people from across the border spent $846 million last year, 10% of Hong Kong's total retail trade.) But once inside this looking- glass world, nothing is quite the genuine article. The Louis Vuitton bags are made in Guangdong; many of the impressive skyscrapers are empty; the women are lovely, but that beauty might have been bought from Shenzhen's army of plastic surgeons. Even the money, Shenzhen...
...paramount issue," says Thomas J. Coyne Jr., mayor of Brook Park, Ohio. "The bottom line is, How do we save the most money for the customers?" Green Mountain beat competitors by 1% to 3%; the buyers' aggregate allowed the company to reduce marketing costs and therefore the retail price...
Then Young decided, on a whim, to start listing the bags themselves on eBay. Her good deal and her low overhead meant she could charge less than retail stores, even after shipping costs. Soon she was doing well. Very well. That's when she decided to sell the bubble wrap itself, not just the bags. Young was already buying the stuff for her own packing needs in 750-ft. rolls. She just increased her order. By a lot. And she got a little system going. Since 250-ft. units sold best, every roll that came off the semi...
...problem is the Supreme Court, which has ruled that a business must have an in-state physical presence - like a warehouse or a retail store - before a state can require sales tax collections on out-of-state purchases. (That's why when a New Yorker buys from Maine-based L.L. Bean, which doesn't have stores in New York, he or she doesn't pay tax. If, however, they bought from J. Crew, which has many stores in New York, they are taxed.) The other is the tech lobby, which lives in mortal fear of the dizzying array of state...