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Rant in Aisle Two! (Part Two)

Posted on March 10, 2009 by paul

Emails have circulated over the past couple of years warning that certain retailers were going out of business, resulting in gift cards purchased at these stores having roughly the same worth as a pile of stale pizza crusts. Retailers, of … Continue reading →

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Rant in Aisle Two! (Part 1)

Posted on March 9, 2009 by paul

Signs of the times: passed by a shopping plaza yesterday, and in the same plaza saw a shuttered Linens-N-Things a couple of doors down a soon-to-be-closed Circuit City. Both were scarcely a mile from a Fortunoff, another chain  that’s soon destined … Continue reading →

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