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...Worth, Texas, should have heeded another aphorism: the bigger they come, the harder they fall. That describes roughly what happened last week when Tandy, which also owns Radio Shack and Computer City, acknowledged that Incredible Universe was really an incredible flop and pulled the plug on the entire 17-store operation. The closings, plus the stores' losses, totaled some $230 million and completely wiped out Tandy's profits for 1996. "Maybe," says retail analyst Lynn Detrick of Williams MacKay Jordan & Co. of Houston, "this does suggest that you can take it too far, that stores...
...town owns the team in more than name. Coach Mike Holmgren likes to tell the story of one of his first visits to the grocery store after he left the 49ers to take the Green Bay job in 1992. As his cart approached that of a little old lady, she looked at him and said, "Hey, California, go out and kick some butt." Make no mistake: the city on the Fox River and Lake Michigan is not exactly paradise. Just like Bedford Falls, it has its dark side. African-American players, isolated and marked as Packers, once likened the town...
...Saichol, who personally designed the company logo, the staff uniforms, the coffee cups and every store, Banrie is the expression of an aesthetic and political vision. The national anthem plays regularly at stores, and Saichol buys coffee at premium prices to support domestic growers...
...STORE OF MANY TRADES...
With two outstanding warrants, Cambridge police entered the shop on Oct. 7 as Purdy showed two customers paintings in the adjoining art gallery, Purdy said. Six other people were in the store, including one male massage customer and two female masseuses, a CPD arrest report states. None were arrested, and Pasquarello said that he doesn’t know if they or any others will be booked for deriving income from prostitution. While prostitution arrests are routine in Cambridge, Pasquarello said, those for maintaining a house of prostitution are rarer...