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- Supermarkets’ emergency plans to keep shelves full | Business | The Observer – Fears that scores of supermarket suppliers will go bust next year have led the country’s major chains to draw up emergency plans to replace them, The Observer can reveal.
Separately, on the high street, bailiffs are getting ready for their busiest Christmas ever, with a slew of retailers expected to go into administration.
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- A Bookstore Stimulus Package? – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com – My fear is that the market has spoken just as loudly about books as it has about American cars: they are not a necessity, and therefore they are bound to suffer when times are tight. This doesn’t mean that certain high-quality or trendy products won’t be rewarded; this doesn’t mean the industries will vanish; nor does it mean that they might not come roaring back, in some fashion. But as much as I would like to think that Blount’s plea will have a massive and good effect on bookstores, publishers, and authors, the rationalist in me fears it will not.
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- Who Sent the First Christmas Card? – The commercial Christmas card as we know it originated in London in 1843. That winter, Sir Henry Cole, a civil servant who helped organize the Great Exhibition and develop the Victoria and Albert Museum, decided he was too busy to write individual Christmas greetings to his family, friends and business colleagues. He asked his friend, the painter John Callcott Horsley, to design a card with an image and brief greeting that he could mail instead.
- Hemmings Auto Blogs » Blog Archive » SIA Flashback – Productmobiles – Automobiles and trucks that served as promotion and marketing vehicles for other products.
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