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There are the future-hardbodies looking very put together as they jog towards the gym. There’s the organic supermarket co-op which offers perks like free massages to its members...
...fact, Rowling has tried to throw a cloak of invisibility around her family so they can live almost normal lives. But simple pleasures like strolling to the supermarket at home in Edinburgh or attending Jessica's Christmas pageant require constant vigilance against an army of tabloid reporters and the occasional stalker...
Supermodel Claudia Schiffer drew reporters to a nondescript supermarket in her hometown of Rheinberg, Germany, last month, when she presided over its rechristening as a high-tech "Future Store" designed to showcase and test interactive shopping technology. She was the star that day, but the shop's owner, German retail chain Metro AG, and its 39 partners in the venture - including the likes of Intel and SAP - are more interested in the response of people like Birgit Hüsken. She regularly uses the store's most prominent tool, the Personal Shopping Assistant (PSA) - a cart-mounted computer that advertises...
Mike Cianciarulo, president and chief executive of Earth Fare, a six-store natural-supermarket chain with headquarters in Asheville, N.C., also knows firsthand what can happen when retirees have no game plan. Many seniors seek part-time employment at Earth Fare not because of the discounts on meals and purchases but because they're bored. "For the most part, when they stay home, they sit there waiting for an illness," says Cianciarulo...
...that has really fueled the fat-cat fuss in Britain. Just as in the U.S., where revelations of corporate piggery last year triggered a populist backlash, Britain's shareholders are asking why they should subsidize the opposite of success. Says Tory M.P. Archie Norman, former chairman of the ASDA supermarket chain, "When time after time, directors walk off with wheelbarrowloads of cash after presiding over declining share prices while shareholders get nothing and employees are made redundant, there is the perception of one rule for the privileged few - who get paid a lot anyway - and another for everyone else." Although...