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Scenes from a mall: kinetic craze
People lined up to play at Microsoft’s XBox 360 kinetic demonstration stand at the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN on Black Friday. I want one of those things.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Scenes From A Minnesota Mall On Black Friday
I journeyed out to the Mall of America on Friday evening — Black Friday, as the day after Thanksgiving is now called in the U.S. — to see what was happening. By the time I got there, around 8 p.m., the biggest part of the shopping day was over. Parking wasn’t too much of a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Cash Call On The Holidays
Twin Cities malls are booked up with tenants, and brimming with good feelings about the holiday shopping season, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press (Sunday, Nov. 7). Psstt…Don’t Tell The Pickpockets! USAA, in a very cleverly conceived press release, reports that the new normal still holds true for this holiday season. Ninety percent of the public plans [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Thanks, W (No, Not That One! The Other One!)
Thanks to this week’s W magazine, I now know why Kim Kardashian is famous. Love the silver bodysuit, Kim. Reminds me of a line from a Ruth Rendell novel, Thirteen Steps Down. She describes her main character as pursuing a career in celebrityhood, he having decided that “being a celebrity was the only career worth [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )My Not-So-Magnificent-Obsession With Financial Markets
Okay, I admit, I’m a little obsessed over the financial markets. What’s that got to do with marketing and PR? Well, nothing and everything of course, depending on whether the markets crash again – or hold up under the stress of the latest bad news about mortgage frauds, verifications, etc. Zero Hedge, a recently discovered [...]
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