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It was an expansion rather than an acquisition, but I thought the receipt policy was an indicator of poor integration at one eatery for which I worked. Yes, corporate acknowledged the company's adoption of the recycling program at the host college. Nonetheless, it was mandatory that my coworkers and I provide receipts to customers -- most of whom were college students. Highly mobile students were unaccustomed to receipts from eateries on campus; nor did they want them. Left and right, my coworkers and I pitched the receipts at the point of sale -- into the trash bins on hand, no less.
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Jubalyn ExWilliams lives in Pennsylvania (United States). You can find her writings and commentaries at landturn.com/blog.
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Malls could make a comeback if big box stores, drug stores, and supermarkets became anchor stores in them. But Walmart, for instance, would refuse to drive foot traffic to rows of brick-and-mortar stores when its own stores compete with Amazon.
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Jubalyn ExWilliams lives in Pennsylvania (United States). You can find her writings and commentaries, including one for "These 7 malls are some of the oldest in America, surviving the retail apocalypse and decades of change," at landturn.com/blog.
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I almost crave the exchange of these ideas from more public intellectuals and scholars. The Fire is Upon Us may present some of them from two contemporaries who debated each other prior to the lure of pundits and personalities.
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Jubalyn ExWilliams lives in Pennsylvania (United States). You can find her writings and commentaries, including one on "Before America Burned" by R.L. Tsai, at landturn.com/blog.
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