Impulse buy?

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I always am amazed at the plethora of junk at the CVS checkout counter. (Yes, Rite-Aid and Walgreens also have the same gazillion candy bars and gums.) Not so much at the grocery store anymore. Oh, there’s the occasional National Enquirer, soda pop, and a few candy bars, but not as many or as wide a choice as before. This doesn’t include the fact that more and more folks are getting their groceries delivered (and don’t set foot into the store itself).

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R&D cuts mean fewer Start-ups

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I am not trying to sound the Doomsday Machine.  Our economy is picking up.  Corporations are raising their low-end employee’s wages.  (Don’t get too excited.  They are not doing this for benevolent reasons.  They are having a tough time keeping their low-end employees, because jobs are now more available.)  But, we still are not coming out with a plethora of new products.

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Washington’s Birthday

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Sunday is Washington’s Birthday (22 February).  As I mentioned on Lincoln’s Birthday, the US Government has elected to conflate these two days (into President’s Day, which was last Monday) to minimize the holidays (days off with pay) for American labor.   And, while both Washington and Lincoln were responsible for securing the formation of a more perfect union, Washington was the first of our presidents.  And, he was elected unanimously.  (Lincoln had three other opponents and only got 40% of the vote, all he needed to win.  We’ve had a few other minority presidents since then.)

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Bug Alert?

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Years ago, I remember using little strips that alerted us to whether the temperature of various objects had changed in transit. I was running a kosher food provider and we were shipping foods across the Northeast corridor, to Southern Florida, Chicago, Los Angeles and a few other clusters where there were plenty of folks who only ate kosher food.
The strips were ok- and probably beyond the state of the art – but we wanted more.

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The first of many? Or just a stretch too far?

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I have written (here’s one from more than 2 years ago) about this sort of issue before.   While I have mixed emotions, I don’t want insurance companies to purchase (or otherwise acquire) physician practices.  I am not sure I want hospitals systems to acquire docs, either, but it seems that the courts are coming around to my point of view, too.

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