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DIED. SPENCER HAYWARD BLAIN, 63, top banker convicted for his role in the $284 million failure of Empire Savings & Loan of Mesquite, Texas, one of the 1980s' notorious thrift failures; of cancer complications; in Dallas...
...year more than it got under a contract with the commonwealth. Her analysis showed that by training Pine Street's men and women to sort the clothing by size and type, the donations could be more efficiently distributed and provide high-quality merchandise for the agency's two thrift shops. Since the summer of 1998, some 50 people have completed a six-month training program at Pine Street's sprawling warehouse in Boston's Jamaica Plain, handling about 5,000 lbs. of clothing a day. For the first time, the operation is becoming self-sustaining, and, says Schorr...
Elliot makes some curious directorial choice. Of the nine women in the prison, seven of them are black, and while the town's upper -middle class population seems to be completely white, a black woman and her child are the only individuals seen shopping in an urban thrift store. The racial make-up might be geographically and socio-economically correct, but the proportions in the film are noticeably awkward...
Flea-market aficionados insist that eBay is doing a more abstract kind of damage: it's destroying the pleasures of the offline collectibles world. Al Hoff, author of Thrift Score and collector of "everything but Levolor blinds," says eBay has changed the atmosphere in flea markets and thrift stores. She now comes across entrepreneurs who are trolling the aisles looking for items they can resell for a higher price online. "The code of ethics used to be that you bought things for yourself," she notes. And she objects that eBay's efficiency is making it harder for bargain hunters like...
...know it, and eBay's refrain "eBay everywhere" seems destined to become a reality. It's something the National Flea Market Association members are starting to accept. Several members of the association have begun moving online, working to put together virtual-flea-market sites like Fleamarket.com And even diehard thrift-shop mavens are becoming reconciled to the fact that the future belongs to eBay. "You can't stop the wheels from turning," sighs Hoff. "In fact, I have to confess: I just bought something on eBay this morning...