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...longer. Neema, 24, now happily married to a supermarket owner and comparatively affluent, actually misses her days as an unmarried girl. That's because back then, she was the highest-paid woman in Siwa, earning more than $250 a month - more than most local men - as the star employee of Siwa Womens' Native Artisanship Development Initiative. The company was the brainchild of Cairo entrepreneur Laila Neamatalla who, together with her brother, leading environmentalist Mounir Neamatalla, have adopted a unique approach in their effort to plug Siwa into the global economy - the heritage hotels and local industries they have built...
...Whether the typical Tokyo Midtown shopper will divorce this from design's role in moving products off shelves is another matter, but Miyake is optimistic, hoping that ordinary Tokyoites will drop in on Design Sight "casually, like visiting a supermarket." We know what he means, but can't help wondering if there's another comparison besides supermarkets and their brightly lit aisles of attention-grabbing packaging, competing for your dollar...
Some products have a lucrative rub-off effect. A supermarket-strategy firm found that shoppers who buy silver polish tend to spend more than $200 a trip. So even though it's a low-turnover product, shelving experts keep it around...
...leader, but a veteran forced to make tough choices about big questions on the economy and Iraq, and to spend close to a decade in office living with the consequences of those choices. Then picture that leader strolling, unannounced and without a visible security detail, into a suburban supermarket in the dying hours of a Friday afternoon, as shoppers, carts piled high, push toward the checkout with the determination of candidates converging on undecided voters. He stands between them and their escape to the weekend, hand outstretched. Eggs and curses: that's the welcome most such leaders could expect...
...what to expect across the Atlantic Ocean. Once in the United States, Dau had trouble adjusting to a completely different way of life. Sometimes, he said, that “culture shock” took a comical turn. When a Catholic charity group in Syracuse brought Dau to a supermarket, he was puzzled by the green salads on display. “Why do they have this grass here?” he remembered asking. “There are no cows.” Once resettled in Syracuse, Dau worked several low-paying jobs for companies such as McDonald?...