Tag: Joseph Pine
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JCPenny. Brick and Mortar Store of the Future?
Business Insider has this story about changes at JCPenney Plans To Replace Cash Registers With Coffee And Juice Bars JCPenney can offer shoppers something no online retailer can: food and drinks to enjoy while they spend money. CEO Ron Johnson said the retailer was planning on replacing traditional cash registers with coffee and juice bars,…
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Manufacturing Fetishism
Financial Times: Fetish for making things ignores real work Manufacturing fetishism – the idea that manufacturing is the central economic activity and everything else is somehow subordinate – is deeply ingrained in human thinking. The perception that only tangible objects represent real wealth and only physical labour real work was probably formed in the days…