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Dollar Store America
We are in the midst of not the much ballyhooed "retail apocalypse," but a real revolution in the way America shops. Online and offline—and indeed, often trying to merge the two channels into one - we see huge companies making huge bets on what the future holds. We see major retailers trying to adapt—quite often on the fly—to the changing ways in which Americans are shopping for and getting all the "stuff" that is necessary, well, to one degree or another, for modern life. From being able to order your groceries—and other stuff—online and pick them up from your local Walmart or Target to being able to order anything and everything - literally everything—from Amazon, there can be no doubt that we are seeing signs that the traditional concept of a "store" is fast-changing as we look ahead to 2020 and beyond.
By David Wyld7 years ago in Journal
The Ultimate Interview Test
When you are in my business, you always have your eye out for simple tips, advice, and yes, tricks, that work that you can pass along. As a strategic management consultant and professor, you never quite know the situation, the problem, the opportunity, or the question that you will encounter next. And so that is why when you see, hear, read, or find something that you know is a good bit of wisdom, you want to not just share it, but you want to add it to your mental Rolodex (now there's a term that dates me as being "AARP-eligible!") that you can call upon as the "right" wisdom for the "right" set of circumstances.
By David Wyld7 years ago in Journal
10 Things You Should Never Wear to Work
One of the harshest things about being an adult is realizing that you can't dress any way you want to dress and still be taken seriously. Sadly, it's a truth that everyone has to get used to, especially if you want to be gainfully employed.
By Cato Conroy7 years ago in Journal
How to Become a Millionaire
First off, I'm not a millionaire, so be sure to seek advice from someone who has already become one and copy what they do. So let's break it down—to become a millionaire, you need to either make $2,739 a day for a year or something more feasible like $273.9 a day for 10 years, or $91.32 per day for 30 years. This is if you do not spend any of it and just create your own little fund. But let's break it down into ways that will make it a little more easier to get to this goal. By the way, you can easily earn $25,000 per year of interest off of $500,000, so becoming a millionaire doesn't have to necessarily be your goal.
By Marcus Azaria7 years ago in Journal
The LumiCharge Is the Only Desk Lamp You'll Ever Need. Here's Why.... Top Story - January 2019.
If you’ve been shopping around for the perfect desk lamp, then look no further, because the LumiCharge LED desk lamp will upgrade your work space like never before. Most people don’t expect much when they look for a desk lamp. They just want something to light up their space, but this lamp gives you so much more than that. This lamp lights up your life. With the LumiCharge, you not only get a high quality lamp, but a phone charger, a USB port, a clock, and a motion-activated light. Who wouldn’t want a lamp that makes working more convenient?
By Morgan E. Westling7 years ago in Journal
Coming Up
I've been in and out of the psychiatric hospital ever since my teenage years. It really started with my single parent upbringing—not having anything we wanted and being frustrated with nothing to do all the time. It can really be so boring that you end up going mad. I was not malnourished, but I remember days my friend would come over wanted something to eat and I was like there is no food. They would say yes you do come on let's look. I would show them and they'd be like oh you're right there isn't anything. Sometimes they would invite me over to supper, I think out of pity.
By Marcus Azaria7 years ago in Journal
Self-Publishing
If you're like me, you have more than one writing platform that you like to use to get your work out into the world. But what if you have a longer work, like a novel or collection of poetry? That's where Kindle Direct Publishing comes in! Kindle Direct Publishing lets you publish your longer works as Kindle books and paperback books (if longer than 45 pages) on Amazon.
By Kristen Barenthaler7 years ago in Journal
10 Reasons Working for Disney Made Me Fall in Love with the Company All Over Again
Moving to Orlando to work for the Walt Disney Company was such a daunting feeling for me. I wasn't sure what would happen, and honestly, part of me was worried it would end up ruining the magic for me. I would learn the behind the scenes way of how the company worked, and I wouldn't be in love with the company anymore. Thankfully, that was the furthest from the case, and after spending almost a year working for the company, I can honestly say I am more in love with the company than ever before.
By Hannah York 7 years ago in Journal
The Incredible Burden of Creativity
I have had a typewriter for as long as I could remember. It started as novelty born of poverty. I was a kid in the late 80s and early 90s and my family couldn't afford a home computer, so for things that needed to be typed, we had a typewriter. It wasn't fancy, but it wasn't an antique either. I wrote all my homework on that thing until I was well into high school, certainly after I had a computer of my own, and a printer, and could have done it the same way as everyone else. I liked the way the keys felt. I liked that it felt like I was constructing each letter in a way that typing on a computer has never really afforded me. You have to really push down on a typewriter, you see, you can't just lazily glaze over the keys, knowing that spell check and auto correct will come in behind you and clean up your messes. With a typewriter, I have to be certain of how things are spelled, and I have to be absolutely sure when I type. I certainly don't manage to type my normal 120 words per minute on a typewriter. I slow down to probably 50 or 60. So why do I continue to use one? Well, because it matters to me. The medium matters to me. Depending on what I am writing, I need to have something so concrete that all my mistakes stand out to me.
By Paige Graffunder7 years ago in Journal
