Our Daily Bleg: How to Manage a Sales Floor?
A reader named Eric Eilberg writes with the following bleg: My family has run Marlen Jewelers since 1914. Over the years a lot of things have changed, and the business has survived and prospered. We’re a freestanding building in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. We employ six full-time and one part-time sales associates. Dad is Read More »
Elf Problems
| You might have learned about the hidden elves of Iceland if you read the Michael Lewis article we blogged about recently. (Note: for Icelandic pushback to Lewis’s colorful tales, see here.) The Icelandic government apparently takes these elves very seriously, and often requires that new construction sites be certified as clear of elves before Read More »
Taking Cities in Stride
Last post, I let you know about Walk Score, the website that tallies a district’s commercial, recreational, and cultural opportunities, then assigns it a numerical score based on its pedestrian-friendliness. Walk Score also ranks the 40 largest cities and provides neat walkability maps of them. Here are the 10 most pedestrian-oriented: Los Angeles, from Walk Read More »
China’s Great Depression
| As the economic slowdown wallops the “world’s factory,” some people think China is like the Soviet Union in the 1980′s, or like Japan in the 1990′s. James Fallows has a more sobering comparison: America as it entered the Great Depression. If so, is the upcoming production of Das Kapital — The Musical China’s answer Read More »
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