Word: spain
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...pennies on streets around its 650 restaurants. On the coins are stickers offering free meals, free drinks and buy-one-get-one-free deals. Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee and sandwich chain, gave away free sandwiches in its U.S. locations on April 1. Shops in Great Britain, Australia and Spain have experimented with "pay what you want" options on their menus...
...pictures from Semana Santa, Spain's holy week
...pictures from Semana Santa, Spain's holy week
...Apparently the tactics work. The Cobrador del Frac now has 400 employees across Spain. Its commercial director, Juan Carlos Granda, says it has a 63% success rate. And with the percentage of people who default on loans skyrocketing in Spain - it reached 3.8% in January, compared with 0.95% the year before - the number of creditors who look to its services is growing. "Thanks to the [financial] crisis, we've seen about a 20% increase in business in the past year," Granda says...
...Buddhas, Zorros, monks and chickens who populate Spain's collections community may face an enemy greater than new legislation: a changing sense of social shame. On an online forum for debtors, one writer, who goes by the moniker Altevere, wrote that he was expecting the chicken any day but was determined to meet him (or her?) sanguinely. "At first, I couldn't breathe, I thought my heart was going to burst out of my chest," he wrote. "But the next day I decided that even if they sent me all the collectors at once, I would simply ignore them...