Word: shopped
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...might switch to eight-man football. The town has lost its Ford, Chevy and Chrysler lots, all its implement dealers and lumber yards, its creamery, jewelry store and movie theater. "The big farmers took over, and it's killed small business," says Paul Loberg, who runs a welding shop off Main Street. "All they need downtown is coffee and beer. They can't buy that by the truckload...
...annual sales of $345 billion, is struggling. So it requires a big, bold fix. The company that Sam Walton created for the rural South is being massively overhauled to compete in the more urban, more competitive universe where it now lives. You might not notice it yet if you shop there, but Wal-Mart is in the midst of a revolution, an audacious three-year plan that will change practically everything the company does: the way it builds and operates stores, the way it buys and stocks merchandise, the way it hires, trains and compensates employees...
Three years ago, the dusty general stores lining El Fasher's market sold dates, spices and sacks of maize flour. Cornflakes were a rarity. Yet, today the cool interior of Mohamed Osman Babkir's shop is packed with bottles of Spanish olive oil, balsamic vinegar and jars of preserved cherries. "People don't expect to find these things here," he says. "But there are people making money here, not just refugees...
...wants to bring gambling closer to Harvard. He has announced a plan to open three casinos in Massachusetts—one for the western half of the state, one for the South Shore, and one for metropolitan Boston, the last of which could set up shop near Logan Airport. Some Harvardians might gasp to think that such vice could soon be only a Blue Line ride away. But such opponents of Patrick’s casino plan must realize the greater good that it figures to do for the Commonwealth as a whole. Massachusetts faces a number of problems with...
Chief among Fallujah's disgruntled proprietors are the shop and factory owners of Sinaa, who are last on the list after residential owners to receive a government check. Most are still waiting for their cash. With incentive to maintain the evidence of damage as an insurance policy until they get paid, few have rebuilt or reinvested and the entire zone remains a ghost town, a twisted testament of war and invitation to terrorists looking for a place to operate and hide...