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Retail realities

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

Yesterday’s post about ordering New Glasses online prompted Robert Randall to comment with some questions and thoughts about the future of retail. My first response was to point out that I posed those very questions way back in December 2006 in my article, Consuming Downtown. This is hardly a new problem, and if local retailers […]

New glasses

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

I’ve been putting off a visit to my ophthalmologist for several years. I realize that’s not a good strategy at my age, but there are other bills to pay, and this one was “ignorable.” But now it happened: I broke my glasses over the weekend and need a new pair. So I’m going to try […]

Eyeglass hack

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Fashion hack: use high-end sunglasses as stylish eye-glasses.

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