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...auction powerhouse eBay. Originally a place to sell knickknacks and collectibles dug out of your basement, it is now seen as a cost-efficient place for small retailers to sell new merchandise, either at auction or for a fixed price. Just $9.95 a month buys a basic storefront; an additional $40 buys some featured placements. Some big retailers pay more for prominent displays, but they account for just 5% of the $14.9 billion worth of goods sold on the site last year. That makes eBay "the most democratic place on the Web," says Johnson of Forrester Research. As for shoppers...
...understated storefront on 90 Mt. Auburn St., the Harvard Provision Company (the Pro) has supplied wine and spirits to Harvard undergraduates and Cambridge residents for over 100 years. But on March 14, it will shut its doors forever...
...Mingwu is knee-deep in Nirvana. He is buried in Bjork, awash in Aerosmith and mired in Moby. Li (not his real name) supplies cut-rate music CDs to storefront retailers in his home city of Guangzhou in southern China and is on one of his periodic buying trips to Shantou, a port city in Guangdong province. Here, inside a cluster of brick warehouses at the end of a dirt lane, hundreds of thousands of discs by foreign artists, both major and minor, are piled in cardboard boxes and wicker baskets stacked several meters high. Li wades through...
...while there was the black comedy of corporate fraud. Who knew that the swashbuckling economy of the '90s had produced so many buccaneers? You could laugh about the CEOs in handcuffs and the stock analysts who turned out to be fishier than storefront palm readers, but after a while the laughs came hard. Martha Stewart was dented and scuffed. Tyco was looted by its own executives. Enron and WorldCom turned out to be Twin Towers of false promises. They fell. Their stockholders and employees went down with them. So did a large measure of public faith in big corporations. Each...
After his year-long sojourn in Colorado, Stone headed back home to Chicago and set up shop for McGovern’s presidential campaign in a storefront in the 43rd ward of Chicago, the ward where he was born...