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...risks faced by these new stores have never been greater. Pressure is coming from the economy: rents on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue are hitting $1,200 per sq. ft. (your local supermarket probably pays about a hundredth of that). Moreover, such design-conscious chains as Target and Topshop have proved that they can deliver style smarts at a lower price. Indeed, luxury shoppers are now as likely to be found in Costco or Tesco as they are in Chanel. Those shoppers who traded up to luxury brands in the booming '90s fell away when the market...
Wands similar to supermarket bar-code readers might be developed eventually to detect missing equipment in patients’ bodies...
...battle to acquire Britain's Safeway supermarket chain is strictly small potatoes by conventional standards. But to deal-starved investment bankers, it's a feast - although the main course has yet to be served. Six potential bidders have emerged to date, trailing 11 investment banks, but so far only one offer is on the table, an unappetizing €4.4 billion stock offer from supermarketer William Morrison that Safeway no longer supports. Three bigger retailing rivals - Tesco, Sainsbury and Wal-Mart - are likely to encounter serious anti-trust obstacles if they make bids, bankers say, and the two financial bidders...
...past two weeks, we'll bet 150 people have wished you happy New Year. And at the supermarket or dry cleaner, someone wanted you to "have a nice day." The Democrats used to chorus, "Happy days are here again." The noted self-help guru Bobby McFerrin counseled, "Don't worry, be happy." Other pop singers tell us that happiness is "a thing called Joe" (Judy Garland), "what my life's about" (Vanessa Williams), "when you feel really good with somebody" (Al Green), "a warm gun" (John Lennon), "an option" (Pet Shop Boys). The old saloon singer Ted Lewis used...
...inspired would-be sauciers in Vietnam and further afield to trade illicitly on its tangy reputation. Nguyen Thi Tinh, president of the Phu Quoc Fish Sauce Producers Association, went on a business trip to France last year and found a bottle of imported Vietnamese fish sauce in a supermarket. "The label said Phu Quoc, but when I looked closer, it said 'Made in Thailand' on it," recalls Tinh. "I was horrified." France recently signed an agreement giving Nuoc Mam Phu Quoc an appellation d'origine contrôlée, the same status given to Cham-pagne vintners. Which just...