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...been pooling money for lottery tickets for six years and hit the jackpot last week with the winning numbers 8, 39, 43, 45, 49 and the Powerball 13. With each member having chipped in $10, one Lucky 13er trekked 100 miles over the Indiana line to a Richmond convenience store to buy 130 tickets...
More important, Redstone had to find someone to fix Blockbuster before it did more damage. He chose John Antioco, a retail veteran who knew the problem firsthand: Antioco could never find the films he wanted either. "The dynamic of going to a video store expecting not to get what I wanted was finally enough for me to stop making the trip," he recalls. "What other business treats you like that?" Perversely, customers got so used to the abuse that it became easy not to give them what they wanted. "Managed dissatisfaction," Antioco called it. He is no stranger to making...
Antioco's strategy is deceptively simple: stock more of the new releases that customers want. Before Antioco, the average Blockbuster customer had to visit a store five consecutive weekends in order to get the movie he wanted. To change that, Blockbuster had to overhaul its business model. In the past the company bought tapes from the studios for about $65 apiece. Because each store has 10,000 tapes, the inventory got expensive, thus limiting the company's willingness to invest in too many copies of one film. Now Blockbuster has revenue-sharing deals with all but a couple of major...
During that meeting, which lasted about 30 minutes on Tuesday, July 7, Nordmann told police that Rudolph also tried to convince him he was innocent. The next day Nordmann went to his store and stayed the night there because he was worried about the encounter with Rudolph and about returning home. While he was gone, police believe Rudolph returned to Nordmann's house either late that night or Thursday and took 50 to 75 lbs. of food, including canned green beans, beets, corn, tuna fish, raisins and a large bag of wheat bran. He carried it away in Nordmann...
...Conqueror, stocked up on raisins, trail mix and batteries and bought $11 worth of burgers and fries from the Burger King in his hometown of Murphy, N.C. The trail had gone stone cold. And then on July 11, George Nordmann, 71, owner of the Better Way health-food store in downtown Andrews, only about 10 miles from Murphy, confessed to a Macon County sheriff's deputy that Rudolph had come to his house asking for food four days before. "Homer, you're not going to believe this," deputy Kenny Cope told his boss, Sheriff Homer Holbrooks...