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...Bangkok has become a magnet for antiquities from all over Asia, where the knowledgeable shopper can find anything from genuine Burmese images of the Buddha to Tibetan monastic furniture. Of course, there are also plenty of cleverly forged fakes so, as in most Asian antiquities markets, caveat emptor. With opium habiliments, shop owners don't always deceive their customers on purpose. Many are clueless as to what is real and what is a reproduction. For instance, if an "opium pipe" has a bowl made from wood or resin or anything else that's flammable, chances are it's a very...
...Publix shopper who identified herself as an FSU undergrad said that it was the sales and not the studs that made her a loyal patron. In almost the same breath, however, she confided that a number of her sorority sisters, a cousin (or two) and her own sister had far fewer reservations about stopping by the Publix in search of a loaf of bread and/or a new boyfriend. “Oh yeah, my friends really, really like to shop at Publix...
...corporate image with Koolhaas' radical design for its $40 million boite in Manhattan's SoHo. The SoHo store jarred retailers, making some rethink the whole concept of what a store has to deliver. The Koolhaas touch includes a stadium-stepped, two-story arc display for shoes that integrates the shopper into the merchandise; technology is melded to the fitting rooms. Strictly speaking, it's not all that practical, but Koolhaas' design made the store a tourist stop. And that's part of the mission. "This spate of very cool, high-design boutiques is the offspring of promotion and the general...
Take Jane Miller, 57, a retiree in Knoxville, Tenn. "I don't like to drive, and I'm not a big shopper," she says. "Most of the time you don't know what you're getting. You make an investment, and it's a crapshoot." She tailors her purchases through Reflect.com and Lands' End and, with her MP3 player and DVD-rental club, customizes her tunes and movies online...
...heard about Shopper's Food Warehouse immediately because we had a victim. There was a brief conversation about something at Michael's [Arts & Crafts], but no one had been injured. We really weren't focused on the relationship. We were focused on the murder...