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...Meanwhile, out in Northern California there's a city called Hercules which decided it hates Wal-Mart. Hercules wants to build a cozy tree-lined street of small shops where an old dynamite plant used to be. They don't mind chains, like Starbucks and The Gap. They just don't want a Wal-Mart, which they believe will crush the small stores like sugar ants. Hercules has found no legal means of forbidding Wal-Mart from building on the vacant lot it owns, so this week the city voted to use eminent domain and take the $15 million...
...leverage of the long tail can give even tiny companies a chance to compete against the biggest of behemoths. A healthy 40% of sales for the online music site Rhapsody, for example, comes from esoteric tunes not found in Wal-Mart's CD bins. In some cases, the long tail turns underdogs into giant killers. Anderson's case in point: the online video retailer Netflix, which overtook the neighborhood video-rental company Blockbuster. He found that 21% of Netflix's sales came from obscure or older movies, not the blockbusters that gave the once mighty chain its name. Blockbuster, meanwhile...
...boats and enough paddles and life vests for two teams. One boat went to its longest-paddling team of employees, the KP Dragons, and the other is shared among Pollonais-Britt's Dragon Healers and other crews in the California Dragon Boat Association. Teams like the Wal-Mart Warriors, VeRizing Dragons and Starbucks Waverunners have also entered festivals around the country, in competition against schools, police and fire departments and, in what has become a global phenomenon in dragon boating, groups of breast-cancer survivors...
...money for the control of diseases in underdeveloped countries. Perhaps my dreams will come true through the immense generosity of that couple. Fereydoun Arfaa Danville, California, U.S. After reading about Costco CEO Jim Sinegal, I am getting a membership to Costco and will never again darken the doorway of Wal-Mart. It seems that Sinegal understands what many companies knew 50 years ago: if you take good care of good employees, they will serve the company, not only themselves. Paul Herman Sun City West, Arizona, U.S. The entire issue deserves commendation, but I especially thank you for the tribute...
After reading about Costco CEO Jim Sinegal, I am getting a membership to Costco and will never again darken the doorway of Wal-Mart. It seems that Sinegal understands what many companies knew 50 years ago: if you take good care of good employees, they will serve the company, not only themselves...