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  • Lessons from Buttercup

    In the opening scenes of the iconic movie, The Princess Bride, Princess Buttercup loved to order her farm-boy Wesley around. It didn’t matter if the request was big or small reasonable or unreasonable, he always responded saying “As you wish,” and then went and did it. Then one day she realized that when he said

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  • Spinning Closing for Easter as a “Retail Blackout”

    The other day, I was scrolling through a news feed and came across an article with the tagline: “Publix to close all 1,448 stores for 24 hours as it joins retail ‘blackout’.” Curious about what this blackout referred to and which other chains were joining in, I soon discovered that the retail blackout meant closing

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