Sam’s Club said it will use Shopper Events, a third-party company, instead of its own employees to run in-store product demonstrations and hand out food samples — a popular tactic used by warehouse clubs to entice shoppers to buy new items.
In a memo to employees, Cornell said Shopper Events will develop a demo program, called “Tastes [...]
Indeed, be not complacent in this regard, but continue onward with diligence and patience. The vaccine I wouldn’t touch with a 10 meter cattle prod, but the tactic of separation or “social distancing” is still, IMHO, the best method for decreasing the risk of infection. And get some Sambucol, it really works well.
H1N1 cases have [...]
The British economy is in its longest recession on record, as figures out this morning showed a shock 0.4% drop in gross domestic product (GDP) in the third quarter of the year.…TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said he hoped today’s figures would “head off the growing signs of complacency” on an economy which remains “extremely fragile”.
“Even [...]
MI5 and MI6 chiefs, as well as terrorism experts, will be asked to give evidence to the Commons home affairs committee.
As a monument to the victims was unveiled in Hyde Park on the fourth anniversary of the London bombings, MPs said the Tube remains “extremely vulnerable” to attack and warned against complacency.
The inquiry will re-examine [...]
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Interesting column
Source: FT.com
Germany’s boycott of a co-ordinated European response to this crisis has become serious and persistent. Only a day after the European Commission proposed a modest European Union-wide stimulus of 1.5 per cent of gross domestic product, Peer Steinbrück, the German finance minister, declared that Berlin would reject any co-ordinated EU-level response [...]
