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From Starbucks to SUVs, even the wealthy are cutting back
Category : Specialty Eatery NewsMORGANTOWN, W.Va. - At The Wine Rack, where sales from the $10-and-under shelves are booming, Jocelyn Vorbach says aloud what most of her customers won't: Friendships now have price tags, and dinner guests are gauged. ...
Read More Smoothie market is heating up
Category : Specialty Eatery NewsEmerald City Smoothie has said that it wants to be the Starbucks of smoothies. But now, Starbucks says it wants to be the Starbucks of smoothies. What does a business development executive say when his chain of 61 franchises is now competing with mo... ...
Read More New program gives med students taste of small-town practice
Category : Specialty Eatery NewsJordan LaRue sees himself as a pioneer.He is one of seven undergraduate medical students making University of Alberta history as part of a new program that had them spend their third year of training with a family physician in a small town.The idea b... ...
Read More Sampling: The New Mass Medium
Category : Specialty Eatery NewsNEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Sampling: It's the new medium. One of marketing's oldest and least glamorous practices -- doling out free product -- has come a long way from the gray-haired ladies in the supermarket aisle. No longer the province of markete... ...
Read More Ex-con seeks to launch devices fighting ID theft
Category : Specialty Eatery NewsLike other entrepreneurs, Ray Beasley begins his day with an 8 a.m. coffee stop at Starbucks. Sipping a Cafe Americano, he flips open his Sony Vaio laptop, fires off e-mails and works his cellphone.But unlike them, Mr. Beasley's résumé ... ...
Read More Boeing on Broadway? No, "Boeing Boeing"
Category : Specialty Eatery NewsA wacky bedroom farce that opened last Sunday on Broadway puts the name of Puget Sound's largest employer up in lights -- twice over. "Boeing Boeing" is no product-placement gimmick, though. It's the hit revival of a 1960s French play whose improbab... ...
Read More Ex-con hunting funding to develop devices that fight identity theft
Category : Specialty Eatery NewsLike other entrepreneurs, Ray Beasley begins his day with an 8 a.m. coffee stop at Starbucks. Sipping a Cafe Americano, he flips open his Sony Vaio laptop, fires off e-mails and works his cellphone. But unlike them, Mr... ...
Read More Prague elite fights 'vulgar' invaders
Category : Specialty Eatery NewsThe intellectuals of Prague - copies of Kafka to hand, fuelled by too many espressos and cheap cigarettes, black polo-necks and scarves to the ready - are on the march. After the stag nights, the coming of McDonald's and Starbucks, and the shopping m... ...
Read More AT&T's WiFi Fake-Outs Leave iPhone Users Nonplussed
Category : Specialty Eatery NewsAT&T's behavior has left iPhone owners and prospective buyers scratching their heads about whether the carrier will or will not offer the device's users free access to its thousands of WiFi hotspots. First there was Starbucks -- iPhone users had free... ...
Read More In Wi-Fi Arena, a Middle Ground Emerges on Free and Paid
Category : Specialty Eatery NewsDenver International Airport switched from a paid to an ad-supported Wi-Fi model last November, and has already seen use increase from 600 connections a day to more than 5,000. That ad revenue slightly exceeds what the airport used to earn from its s... ...
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