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How To Sell A $1 Snow Globe For $59: The Real ROI... →
The founders of the website Significantobjects.com, a site devoted to quantifying the bottom-line power of story at a product level, say, “Stories are such a powerful driver…that their effect on any given [product’s] subjective value can be measured objectively.” The website is home to an experiment that goes like this: the founders buy thrift store, garage sale, and flea market products, always...
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distractedbypixels:
Lydia Calas, Mayor Bloomberg’s sign interpreter. I could watch her for hours. ♥
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“The way human beings attribute significance to objects hasn’t changed since we...”
– At Home With Joshua Glenn of the Significant Objects Project - NYTimes.com (via significobs)
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Whole Foods is coming? Time to buy - Dream City -... →
The company is so good at the real-estate game that it has spawned a catchphrase, the Whole Foods Effect, a phenomenon Detroit is clearly banking on, having offered the retailer $4.2 million to come there. That figure suggests city leaders believe that Whole Foods is a force unto itself that can give a neighborhood the escape velocity it needs to break free of its doldrums. Are they right?
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