In a Monsanto-based food economy, finding carrots that actually taste like carrots (or even look like carrots rather than flavorless baby carrots) is becoming more difficult. Luckily, Seward Coop offers delicious alternatives for people who think natural foods look and taste better than corporate imitations.
Rocky Mountain News’ final publisher, John Temple, broke down the challenges the newspaper was dealing with before finally closing its doors yesterday. 1. Even with subscription costs below national averages, they couldn’t retain subscribers. 2. Advertisers kept leaving. Especially in classifieds. 3. Advertisers who stuck around were paying less than at comparable papers around the [...]
Snowmagedon Field Report – Syracuse, NY, originally uploaded by edkohler. Coming to you almost-live from Syracuse, NY. From my vantage point, I see blue skies with virtually unlimited visibility. Drive safe, Minnesnowta.
This just in from Jeff Deitch in Las Vegas. Jeff pointed out that this place doesn’t only fold the TP on the dispenser, but the back-stock as well. Some casinos draw people with fountains or roller coasters. The Green Valley Ranch keeps it real with top-notch first TP impressions.
Yellow Pages evangelist, Ken Clark, doesn’t think it’s fair to use the term “spam” to describe the unsolicited delivery of advertising to people around the country. According to his narrow reading of the definition, he thinks it only applies to email and relies upon the following descriptions from Wikipedia to support his argument (I wonder [...]
Taylor Pratt at Marketing Pilgrim wrote about a study from e-consultancy that showed online retailers out-ranking offline retail for customer satisfaction. This may come as a surprise for many, but here’s why I think it makes sense. In the offline world, entering a retail store has become a crap-shoot. After enough poor experiences with under-trained [...]
One of the most difficult TP folding situations hotels create for themselves is dualing TP dispensers. Putting two next to each other creates the expectation of TP twins. However, that’s rarely the case in practice. Situations, like this one in Victor, NY are much more common.
The Freets emailed me and said he was up for a Run Minneapolis segment. He stopped by on Saturday afternoon for a quick drive up to the crazy corner at the East end of the Franklin Ave Bridge for a run through the University of Minnesota. From there, we went North on 27th Ave SE [...]
CrisisOfCredit.com has an excellent video explaining how we got into this credit crisis. But one thing about the video seems a little overdone. They include drawings of what a prime vs sub-prime borrower looks like. Prime: Sub-Prime: That seems a little ridiculous. The number of kids, weight, and smoking habits of borrowers likely has little [...]
Here’s a hint: It’s not in the banana belt. Sorry about the resolution on this one. I forgot my camera in the overhead bin.
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