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On outlet stores
The Sacramento Bee (via the Raleigh News & Observer here) offers up a fascinating look at the outlet store business model. And to put it bluntly, outlet stores these days…
Gap
American multinational clothing and accessories retailer
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Art Pope’s Manifest Destiny
Interesting op-ed* in today’s N&R Ideas section from Guilford College history professor Damon B. Atkins, who expresses concern that hipsters sporting The Gap’s Manifest Destiny T-shirt might not really know…
Elections & Public Integrity
Daily Beast columnist contends Ryan appeals to the ‘Screwed Generation’
I’m not sure I like the name Kirsten Powers applies to the youngest generation of American adults, but my fellow Generation X-er certainly makes an interesting point in a new…
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A Great Example Of The Market At Work
It looks like food trucks – once the outlaws of the food industry, as we’ve seen here in North Carolina — are going mainstream. National food chains — and others…
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Borders seeks help for Superwealth book
Former John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society speaker Max Borders wants you to have a chance to read his new book Superwealth this year. If The New York Times can trot…
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The Free Market Works Again
Retailer The Gap got a swift and certain dose of the free market when it changed its logo, and the company listened to customers. Gap’s new logo was put to…
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Glorious Paperwork
The Buncombe County Commissioners received a presentation on small farms from the Agricultural Extension today. They learned GAP (short for Good Agricultural Practices) could marginalize a lot of small farmers…
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Sweet Land of Change My Diapers
The NC Cooperative Extension is at it again. A couple years ago, this organization was asking the public for ideas about what it could do. A friend of mine scoffed…
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A warning to lovers of regulation
My daughter lives in Old Town Alexandria, so I have some familiarity with the area. It’s one of those dwindling areas that has a local character that seems to be…
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The Lt.’s Wife
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Health Savings Accounts May Fill the Gap
The price of health care is a conundrum full of many interconnected pieces. Some of those seeking a way to lower the cost of health care think that Health Savings…