This article at Business Week has much merit. Our pets: we love them, we spoil them, and we spend big bucks on them. I can’t identify, personally, with the “frills” shopping: clothing for dogs, braces, ball gowns, or the other nutty merchandise. I’m not much into “designer” items for my dogs, either, but I do [...]

Starbucks just raised prices this past winter. And now again? I have wondered if the new stores Starbucks has been opening will be overkill. This article confirms my suspicions somewhat. With everybody now making “specialized coffees,” Starbucks, it seems, will shrink instead of grow in the future. I can’t see these high prices being sustained. [...]