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14Feb/120

Turkey and cheese sandwich not good enough, girl forced to buy nuggets at cafeteria

Whoa. American schools have really weird rules. These, no doubt, came from some admirable desire to provide all kids with equally nutritious lunch, which resulted in this strange role of lunch box inspector. If someone told me that all lunches were to be inspected, I wouldn’t believe. Until now. Yep, in North Carolina there are…

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6Feb/123

Yellow Pages Opt Out: prime example of marketing BS

Ah.. the wonderful world of printed advertising. Even more wonderful world of phonebook based printed advertising. Ten years aro companies were fighting to the death to be on the Yellow Pages cover and payed dearly for a bigger font or for an ugly frame around their “ad”. Because people did use those giant books, and…

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2Feb/120

Why Buy with YBuy?

Every once in a while the enterprising spirits of small businesses invent brand new and strange business models. And sometimes it’s so strange, that they simply stump me. Today’s example of such “um… what are they thinking?” business models is YBuy.com. To start, it uses that “traditional” groupon-like model, where you can’t really see what…

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