...2007 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/23/business/23checkout.html Starbucks at 9 a.m.? Eight minutes, head to the next one down the street. Duane Reade at 6 p.m.? Twelve minutes, come back in the morning. But now a relative newcomer to Manhattan is trying to teach the locals a new rule of living: the longer the line, the shorter the wait. Come again? For its first stores here, Whole Foods, the gourmet supermarket, directs customers to form serpentine single lines that feed into a passel of cash registers. Banks have used a similar system for decades. But supermarkets, fearing a long line will scare off shoppers, have generally favored the one-line-per-register system. By 7 p.m. on a weeknight, the lines at each of the four Whole Foods stores in Manhattan can be 50 deep, but they zip along faster than most lines with 10 shoppers. Because people stand in the same line, waiting for a register to become available, there are no “slow” lines, delayed by a coupon-counting customer or languid cashier. And since Whole Foods charges premium prices for its organic fare, it can afford to staff dozens of registers, making the line move even faster. “No way,” is how Maggie Fitzgerald recalled her first reaction to the line at the Whole Foods in Columbus Circle. For weeks, Ms. Fitzgerald, 26, would not shop there alone, assigning a friend to fill a grocery cart while she stood in line. When she discovered the wait was about 4 minutes, rather than 20, she began...
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... September 22, 2015 “Your Choices Have Consequences” In A & P, John Uplike really used Sammy, a male teenager, to express the way they think about females. In this story Sammy’s reactions gives an imagination male teenagers have on women. Sammy behaved in certain ways but things did not turn out the way he wanted them to. In different situations he acted just like a normal teenager would, by not taking things serious. It is easily seen what is going on in Sammy’s head. First, when Sammy saw the three girls entering the grocery store wearing bathing suits, his whole mind frame changed from being a working person to being an ordinary teenager. He entered into a gaze of the girls not giving his full attention to the customer standing right at his register. Sammy was so focused on the girls who did not knew he even existed at the time to where he could not make sure the customer at his register was satisfy, “ I stood there with my hand on a box of HiHo crackers trying to remember if I rang it up or not”, (Uplike 201). Secondly, Sammy really acted like a teenager when Lengel approached the girls at the register about coming into the store wearing bathing suits and how to dress the next time they come to the store. Lengel asked Sammy have he rung the girls purchase up yet and Sammy reacted with making the drawer sprung open as to say “ ‘Hello (bing), there, you (gung) hap-py pee-pul (splat)!’ ” (204). As the girls rushed out Sammy blurted out a spur-of-the-moment decision...
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...girls is the boss? Why are they here? As he starts to feel that it is his job to observe every move they make, he starts to describe them in more detail. Sammy finds out that his friends are being demeaning towards the girls and decides to take action. Sammy gains the confidence to quit his job and become Mr. Hero after viewing this misogynistic nature. He feels that they are beautiful in their own different way. The girl’s uniqueness is what caught his attention, thus showing Sammy’s unique mindset. From the beginning of the story he starts to describe the first girl he sees. He states “The one that caught my eye first was the one in the plaid green two-piece. She was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it… (1013).” He starts to talk about what she had on then talks about the tan she had. Why did he care about her tan like that? He was trying to say that her tan was not fully complete because she had parts of her body that the sun did not hit. Maybe she was not in the right position for the sun to hit her entire body. He was so focused on observing her, that the customer that he was ringing up started to give him hell because he could not remember if he had already scanned the idea or not. “There was this chucky one, with the two-piece- it was bright green and the seams of the bra were still sharp and her belly was still pretty pale… (1014).” He describes every single girl that he sees. It has...
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...supportpapa.com. Parents are always trying to do everything they can to keep their children safe. Whether it is reminding them not to take candy from a stranger or the ever so common advice of not going with someone to find their lost puppy, parents do what they can to ensure their child’s safety. But what happens when the stranger approaching a child is not “physically” approaching them? What happens when it is an online predator trying to lure a child in while the parents may have no clue as to what is going on? As chat rooms and social networking rapidly grows more and more popular, so does the amount of online predators. Online predators have been an issue for years now but it has proven to be very difficult to always catch them in the act. It may be near to impossible to completely stop online predators from chatting with young children online but in my opinion there needs to be something done to at least help stop some of these crimes, which is why I propose that the Parents Against Predators Act (P.A.P.A), a proposed legislation, become the 28th amendment to the constitution of the United States. P.A.P.A is now in the process of trying to become a law, but I believe that it should be taken a step further and that the constitution should have an amendment regarding internet safety to make the youth of America safer. The Parents Against Predators Act is an act that was authored and proposed in 2007 by Suzanne Stanford. The act was first proposed with the intent to help make...
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...CALL IMPLEMENTATION ACT, 2003 Have you ever been sitting down in you living room, trying to enjoy your favorite television show; then all of a sudden the phone rings. You answer the phone and you are asked if you would like to switch your cable provider. Well the introduction of the Do Not Call Implementation Act, 2003. For some people we just know it as the national do not call registry. This can be a lifesaver from awful telemarketing calls. On March 11, 2003, congress passed this bill. The bill had political backing by Representatives Billy Tauzin and John Dingell, and signed into law by former President George W. Bush. Under this act, the general public is allowed to register their home landline number as well as their cellular phone numbers in order to prevent annoying telemarketing calls at all times of the day. However what many people are not aware of is that business’ that exchange business with each other that are on the Do Not Call Implementation Act, 2003 can actually tell the other business to stop calling them, but that would be bad for business. Even though you put your number on the Do not call list, sometimes telemarketers do not listen and call anyways. There is more ways that they can break the law by just contacting you, if they contact you before 8 AM or after 9PM, and also if the telemarketing firm fails to identify themselves during the phone call. These are just a few examples of some other ways that telemarketers can break the law by contacting...
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...the pharmaceutical side was a blast of success. The $4 drug program has forced all competitors to cut down on their price too. They achieve quickly what the US governments have striven for decades to accomplish unsuccessfully. That is a significant benefit to consumers. Questions 1.a – I would have diverse my stocks by selling different brands and having all kinds of items available. I would negotiate discounts with the manufacturers and suppliers and give promotional discounts to the consumer periodically in order to keep them coming. I would distribute flyers mentioning my sales, the specials and the variety of brands that are available in my hardware stores. 1.b – In this case, it seems easy to compete with Walmart because it sells just a few brands in the men’s clothing lines. But the big issue is to attract...
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...the customers. The unfortunate handling of this food causes the employees to get grease on their hands and fingers. This can be an issue with the design because after time the grease built up will cause the screen to become unresponsive or unreadable as well. Another design issue that the new system has is a two part security issue. First is a lack of security giving the ability for employees to login into the register interface for other employees that have forgotten their user id and passwords. This is huge concern for the management because each employee is responsible and accountable for their time on the register and money that goes into the register as well. If other employees are logging into the system for them, and the register comes out short at the end of the night, there is no body to hold accountable for the missing money. This huge security risk for management, all employees should be held accountable for their time on the register and not be logging into the system for other employees. The other security concern that is a design issue with the new system are the security features that are built into the interface. First off if an employee logs into the system and then forgets to log out and the system locks, other employees cannot login into the system. Employees require a user id to login into the system and they keep on forgetting either their user id or password. Another design issue is that the interface’s buttons are very close together...
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...life in Indiana than he came back to his hometown. Jimmie worked jobs doing laborer work and as a woodcutter. He only made about $6 a day. He was in inspired to get involved with the Civil Rights Movement so he decided to register to vote for the first time in his life. Jimmie made many attempts to register to vote but he can’t get past the many things that keep African American from voting. Jimmie Lee Jackson was participating in a peaceful night march on February 18, 1965. It was a protest held for a young man by the name of James Orange. He was a field secretary for this Southern...
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...condition (like an important part being unavailable). Either way, it’s something that may or may not happen... but if it does, then it will force you to change the way you and your team will work on the project. If your project requires that you stand on the edge of a cliff, then there’s a risk that you could fall. If it’s very windy out or the ground is slippery and uneven, then falling is more likely. A risk is any uncertain event or condition that might affect your project. Not all risks are negative. Not all risks are negative Some events (like finding an easier way to do an activity) or conditions (like lower prices for certain materials) can help your project! When this happens, we call it an opportunity… but it’s still handled just...
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...and down the aisles and then escaping through the exit hatch. But not everyone is so dependable. My research has revealed three distinct types of abnormal customer: the amnesiac, the super shopper, and the dawdler. The amnesiac stops his car in the loading zone, leaves the engine running with the keys locked inside, and tries to enter the store by crashing into the exit door. After dusting himself off and slipping through the entrance, he grabs a cart and begins hurtling down the aisles against the normal flow of traffic. "Peaches or potatoes?" he mutters to himself. "Doughnuts or Ding Dongs?" He has, of course, left his shopping list at home. When he finally makes it to my register and starts unloading the cart, he suddenly remembers the jug of milk or the loaf of bread that brought him here in the first place. He then resumes his race around the store while the customers waiting in line begin to grumble and tap their feet. Of course, when it comes time to pay for the goods, the amnesiac discovers that he has left his wallet at home. The super shopper has been planning her assault for days. She enters the store with a pocketbook on her arm, a coupon purse around her neck, a calculator in her pocket, and in her hand a shopping list that makes the Dewey Decimal System look downright chaotic. With military-like efficiency, she trundles her cart from one sale item to another, carefully organizing them in her basket by size, weight, and shape. Rarely, however, does she make it...
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...higher level languages. The second is the creation of standardized vendor-independent operating systems like UNIX and its clones like Linux which lowered the cost and risk of bringing out a new architecture. The open standard of systems eased the new computer architecture introduction. The above improvements helped evolve computer architecture from general microprocessor based architecture to a new set of architectures called RISC architectures. RISC stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computer (employ simpler instruction set). CISC stands for Complex Instruction Set Computer (employs rich and complex set of instructions). During the 1980’s, RISC was presented as a solution to derive more instruction set power out of a computer. It is not just a means to reduce the instruction set, but it is a way of significantly enhancing the performance of a system...
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...One late afternoon at the end of October, Jason Mah, assistant residence manager at Cambridge Hall, was sitting at the residence cafeteria waiting for his friend to join him for dinner. His friend, unfortunately, had arrived in the middle of the “rush” period at the cafeteria, and faced a potentially long wait in the cafeteria line. As a student would put it: “It is a common joke around here, if you sit to eat while your friend is entering the cafeteria to get his meal, you will have enough time to finish dinner before he returns.” Mah was aware of the situation and already had started to investigate in order to propose some improvements to the residence management. Mah hoped that some minor adjustments requiring no major investments or disbursements would be sufficient to resolve the situation. CAFÉ D. POWND The “Café D. Pownd” was a newly established cafeteria at the equally new Cambridge Hall residence that had opened in September, at the National Academy of Liberal Arts (NALA). The cafeteria served as a popular eating place for the 450 residents of Cambridge Hall, as well as for approximately 100 residents from Nottingham Hall, another residence located across the street. This cafeteria was open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and was closed weekends and holidays. It offered a wide variety of hot meals, beverages, salads, desserts, snacks and sandwiches. The majority of residents paid for their food purchases with their student cards through an...
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...arrived to the office at 7:34AM on Friday 16 of May 2014, she walked in to the office wearing a maxi skirt purple and a white tight blouse. First thing Beatriz did was to say hello to everyone on her way to her desk including me. As soon as she reached her desk, Beatriz turned on her laptop on and waited for the computer to be loaded. She checked who was around for a coffee. I walked to her desk to remind her that I was recording her morning routine; just to be sure she was ok with it. After few minutes on her desk and having checked her emails, she sent the first group message on same time; same time is a lotus instant messaging application used within the company. Beatriz only got one replied to her message from Heidi Ross. Heidi was sitting two and half metres from Beatriz desk, and she responded she was up for a coffee that morning. Although when Beatriz sent the message, she was trying to contact her colleagues or girls from level six. After few minutes, Beatriz got two instant messages to her phone; these messages were from the girls from level six. One of the message said, Who’s up for a coffee?, Beatriz instantly replied the text message writing see you at Kenzie’s in ten. I asked Beatriz how they do it every day, how the logistics work and if they have the same routine every day. Beatriz responded that it depended on who gets to work first; some days the girls from down stairs come up and wait for Beatriz, some other days Beatriz went down to level six and waited for the...
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...influences the relationship between individual freedom and society order. Upon the problems of individual versus community and personal freedom versus social order, the pioneer philosophers mainly think and answer it in tow basic ways. One part of philosophers and thinkers emphasize wholeness, inevitability and divinity and advocate that the whole is more important than the part; the society is more important than the individual. Another part of philosophers view the issue at opposite angle. Why do individual and society, individual freedom and social order stay in opposition to each other? On the one hand, the reason is that any person has irrational component inside him; the rational component registers as being controlled and is inclined to be in order; the irrational component registers as being impulsive and is inclined to the diversity. One the other, the individual freedom requires the equality, but the maintenance of the social order would sacrifice some individuals’ freedom without a doubt. It seems to me that the equality among the persons refers to being equally protected by law; it is the equality upon the obligation and right. It is not the unconditional equality and freedom in nature. In abstract term, the individual and the society are indispensable; the individual is a part of society, the society is made up by the individuals. The individual freedom cannot be protected without the social order; the...
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