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...amplify profits? Treasure's agency acts like an audio interior designer, removing invasive noises or rescoring unappealing music. It seems simple, but while many businesses have mastered the art of influencing shoppers through sight (with alluring displays) and smell (say, by piping the odor of fresh coffee throughout a store), few have focused on the smart use of sound, says retail psychologist Tim Denison of the British Retail Think Tank. But that's changing. U.S. firm Muzak used to be the butt of jokes for its bland elevator music, but it now supplies some 400,000 shops, restaurants and hotels...
Still, even a start-up that blows up can be rewarding, so long as the risks are appropriate. Martin Lehman was 61 when he finally opened the doors to his first women's-apparel store in 1984, realizing a lifelong dream. After a long career as a retail executive ended when he lost his job in a merger, Lehman invested a quarter of his $1 million nest egg in his new venture. His business did fine, growing to six stores in six years. Then, he says, a nasty falling out with his partner forced them to sell at a loss...
...Grocery store workers earn an average of $332 a week, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, compared with average weekly earnings of $529 for all workers in the private sector. But some baggers don't even make $300, because they are paid only in tips. But according to Jill Cashen, spokesperson for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, grocery store jobs, when unionized, can be stable enough to support a family. "From baggers up to meat department managers," Cashen says, "workers can look at their union grocery jobs as career positions that provide financial security...
...sale, but they had to wait a full year to gain approval from the market's archaic administration - largely controlled by the local families who have sold produce here for more than a century - to change a produce stall into a pasta store. "The merchants all have to agree to let a vendor sell something new," explains Ibars. "Out of the four hundred stall owners, one guy voted against us." He declines to explain how he and his partners convinced the holdout to change his vote...
...swarmed under its iron roof each day, the Boqueria has become dotted with stands selling packaged goods (pre-cut watermelons wrapped with forks) or cooked food (pizza by the slice). To some purists, however, the replacement of a longstanding vegetable stall with Pazzta, the tile-and-chrome fresh pasta store, is a reminder of how much the character of the Boqueria is changing. For others, it's simply a case of the market adapting to the tastes of its clientele...