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...While cash-strapped shoppers might want to start tying their hands behind their backs, retailers should hang signs that say "Feel me." For a subtler approach, the authors single out the Apple Store as a model. Apple openly invites its customers to fidget with its gadgets, and once you start playing with the iPhone, it's awfully hard to leave the place without one. Shu says that at Office Depot, she has seen pencil packages with holes in the plastic. These holes encourage consumers to poke around. (See the best business deals...
...take the package—their last day of work will be June 30. Baiter hopes to tutor, and Kaufman—eight years shy of retirement age and much too young to stop working, he said—wants to work at a gourmet food or liquor store.“I’m not going to be a bag lady yet,” Baiter said. “I absolutely am not going to bleed until the train hits me.”All the staff workers have been approaching the decision-making process...
...southeast remains strong and the only Kurdish party in parliament constantly worries it will be forced to disband. But in other ways, change is happening. After years under a ban, the Kurdish language is flowering, the result of European Union-mandated reforms introduced in 2006. In Silopi, the same store that once secretly sold bootleg Kurdish tapes is now plastered with pictures of budding Kurdish stars. Language courses in the unofficial regional capital Diyarbakir are packed, writers' groups have sprouted and at the local theater, young actors are staging the city's first ever original Kurdish-language play (The Mutes...
...bant Café, tel: (33-1) 4770 0102. Then, we'd get on our bicycles and pedal to the Marché des Enfants Rouges, the oldest covered market in Paris, for the organic produce, delicatessens and wine merchants. After lunch, we might hit the vintage-clothing stores Oh Lumière, tel: (33-1) 4357 5126, for vintage sneakers and the like, and Doursoux, tel: (33-1) 4700 0182, a classy military-surplus store with great aviator jackets and sweaters. For dinner, we'd reserve a table at Autour d'un Verre, tel: (33-1) 4824 4374, a friendly restaurant...
...rent and a mismatch between the store’s offerings and Harvard Square clientele precipitated the closure. “We’re going to be reinventing ourselves somewhere else,” she said. While Santa Maria declined to disclose the exact location of the new store she and her husband plan to open, she said it would also be in the Square. Alo opened in 2000 after Seven Stars Bookstore vacated the 58 JFK St. location above Shay’s Pub & Wine Bar. The space is owned by the trust of Geneviève McMillan...