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Beijing's golden resources mall ought to be a shopper's paradise. Built on the city's outskirts in 2004, the Art Deco-style center boasts a staggering 6 million sq. ft. (560,000 sq m) of retail space, making it the world's second largest mall, 30% bigger than Minnesota's famed Mall of America, once the largest. Golden Resources accommodates more than 1,000 shops, dozens of restaurants, 230 escalators and an ice-skating rink. On its five floors, you can buy everything from fur coats to exercise equipment to pet supplies...
...idea that people are only buying these clothes to go to the Caribbean or on a weekend in Palm Beach is a complete misnomer," says Robert Burke, a luxury fashion consultant at Robert Burke Associates. "For retailers, it's about having fresh product on the floor. The luxury shopper is shopping now multiple times during the year. They're not just going into stores in March or September to buy their spring or fall wardrobes...
...Whether the typical Tokyo Midtown shopper will divorce this from design's role in moving products off shelves is another matter, but Miyake is optimistic, hoping that ordinary Tokyoites will drop in on Design Sight "casually, like visiting a supermarket." We know what he means, but can't help wondering if there's another comparison besides supermarkets and their brightly lit aisles of attention-grabbing packaging, competing for your dollar...
...last season’s “Beauty and the Geek,” will have their chance when casting directors from the hit show hold a Boston casting call during reading period. Looking for “intellectually endowed but socially inept men who can turn a shopper into a scholar” and “beautiful, sexy, social-savvy women who can turn a geek into a stud,” the show pairs male and females contestants and puts them through a slough of intellectual and interpersonal challenges, according to the casting director?...
...Without the ability to browse, a reader becomes passive in his selection, dependent upon personal recommendations or the bestseller list to determine his next choice. Since recommendations are often way off the mark, and the bestseller list is perpetually infested with trade romances and Dan Brown potboilers, the online shopper is stranded with an ever-diminishing pool of options. Until recently, the reader was unable to judge a writer’s style when shopping online. The New York Times recognizes the importance of actually reading a chunk of the text and has been running first chapters of newly released...