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Eddie's career turned for the worse and he had no choice but to go home. Although he thinks that his life has ended, the events that just happened to him were actually just the beginnings of a new life. A life that he had only dreamed about having. Soon, he almost forgot the old life and career that he once had as he enjoys his new life. It was as if Lady Luck had finally smiled at him?... This is a story of reawakenings and how seeming disasters...
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Thalhimers was founded in Richmond in 1842 by German Jewish immigrant William Thalhimer as a humble dry goods store. It expanded over the years to become a 26-store chain across the Southeast under the leadership of William's great-grandson, William B. Thalhimer Jr. It boasted the latest in clothing, shoes, and accessories for the entire family, the most modern of housewares, and gourmet foods and baked goods, including the iconic six-layer chocolate...
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Within thirty years of the Great Chicago Fire, the revitalized city was boasting some of America's grandest department stores. The retail corridor on State Street was a crowded canyon of innovation and inventory where you could buy anything from a paper clip to an airplane. Revisit a time when a trip downtown meant dressing up for lunch at Marshall Field's Walnut Room, strolling the aisles of Sears for Craftsman tools or redeeming S&H Green Stamps...
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The old country stores along the back roads of rural Mississippi are the treasures that remain of a bygone era. Travel back to the Mississippi of yesteryear and hear of the deadly can of molasses that once caused a massacre in Carrollton, Mississippi, in the late 1800s. Find the church near Alston's General Store in Rodney with a Civil War cannonball lodged in its front facade. Or discover the haunts of Causeyville General Store among shelves and...
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Following up his hit 505 Unbelievably Stupid Web Pages, Dan Crowley again takes on the Web's weirdest and wildest in 505 Weirdest Online Stores. This is the ultimate guide to the Internet's strangest stores, where you can spend your time and money in pursuit of dehydrated water, duct tape fashion and a corporate hairball. For all those who love eBay but are tired of products that have actual uses, check out these sites: The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation...
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Clear Engleberts fifth book, Feng Shui for Retail Stores, is the result of over four decades of retail management experience combined with two decades of professional feng shui experience. Store owners have dubbed this book, A must-read for my staff. This thorough book covers: location and exterior, layout and visual presentation, merchandise selection and pricing, employee and customer interaction, plus all the retail details that make merchandise...
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Each Vermont country store carries its own particular stock of special wares and memorable characters. From the Connecticut River to Lake Champlain, country stores and their dedicated owners offer warmth against the blizzard, advice and a friendly ear or a stern word. Neighbors meet and communities are forged beside these feed barrels and bottomless coffee urns. Author Dennis Bathory-Kitsz returns once again to the Green Mountain State with this updated...
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In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco's merchant princes built grand stores for a booming city, each with its own niche. For the eager clientele, a trip downtown meant dressing up--hats, gloves and stockings required--and going to Blum's for Coffee Crunch cake or Townsend's for creamed spinach. The I. Magnin empire catered to a selective upper-class clientele, while middle-class shoppers loved the Emporium department store with its Bargain...
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Often hidden on the back roads and byways of the Granite State, country stores are an essential and beloved part of the state's character. Developed from trading posts as travelers settled throughout the state, they are recognizable for their vast array of merchandise and a fragrant blend of tobacco, spices and coffee. The country store became the center of the community, where residents could play checkers, mail letters, attend town meetings and...
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Hutzler's. Hecht's. Hochschild's. Stewart's. These were the four grand department stores for loyal Charm City shoppers for over one hundred years. Though these giants of the retail scene have been lost, the memories remain. Generations of local children were enchanted by the Toytown Parade at Hochschild's and the Christmas displays at Stewart's--and who can forget Hecht's Festival of Flowers or Hutzler's delectable Wellesley Fudge Cake? While local...
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Explore the fabric of America over hot coffee and penny candy.
Step through the wooden doors of a New England general store and step back in time, into a Norman Rockwell painting and into the heart of America. New England's General Stores offers a nostalgic picture of this colonial staple and, fortunately, steadfast institution of small towns from Connecticut to Maine. This is where children of each generation take their first allowance to buy their...
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“Yes, Your Products Can Be in Stores Too” is a step-by-step guide for small businesses that are seeking store placements for their products. This book covers topics from label compliance, FDA guidelines all the way to contracts. Your product can be shelved in stores near you within 48 hours if you follow the steps in this book. Expand your outreach today and showcase your unique products to the world.
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. . . there's Humphrey pumping drugs all out & sundae soda cracker pop . . ."This article appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.
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This is book is a collection of short stories that have been combined into this book to create volume one. This combination of stories is to show that you can make your dreams come true. As an aspiring author, Ireland took a teenage dream and made it into reality and is proving that it is never too late to work on your dreams.
Take a walk through numerous love stories. Find romance and love though each page letting you fantasize and dream into...
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Stories for Chip brings together outstanding authors inspired by a brilliant writer and critic, Science Fiction Writers of America Grandmaster Samuel R. "Chip" Delany. Award-winning SF luminaries such as Michael Swanwick, Nalo Hopkinson, and Eileen Gunn contribute original fiction and creative nonfiction. From surrealistic visions of bucolic road trips to erotic transgressions to mind-expanding analyses of Delany's influence on the genre-as an out...
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The do-it-yourselfer's go-to reference--the illustrated guide to all those odd, mysterious, wonderful, and necessary things you need to purchase in hardware stores, home centers, and lumber yards. With this book, you can ask for the "thingamajigs" and "whatchamacallits" by proper name. With over 1000 items and over 600 illustrations, you'll never be intimidated again on your shopping trip for your next home repair or home improvement project. A great...
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Succeeding in sales requires more than just waiting for the economy to get better, politicians to wave a magic wand or for the weather patterns to improve. Sitting and waiting for customers to walk through the door no longer works. There are effective and profitable actions you can take daily in your business to reach the profit levels you need to not just survive but to STRIVE. This guide contains over fifty tips that will help you find your passion...
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A unique book written based on extensive experience in retail operations, Stores Don't Suck explores such profound questions as: why didn't the store get the memo? Why doesn't the display look like it should? How do you get stores to do the things you need them to do? (Spoiler alert: It doesn't have to be so hard.)
Told in stories all retailers can relate to, “Stores Don't Suck” dives into the nitty, gritty realities of store operations, of communication...
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