Entries from July 31st, 2010
We’ve been around the track a few times since we first started wrestling with Safeway’s latest promotion, which promises personalized discounts via a computerized system that tracks prior purchases. Safeway calls it “Just for U”. We are still calling it “Not 4 U”. When I last wrote about it, we had finally managed to get [...]
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Tags: consumer issues·Just for U·Safeway·Shopping
The Honolulu Academy of Arts and the Contemporary Museum moved ahead this week with a plan to merge into a single entity. According to letters sent out to their respective members this week, the two arts organizations had reached a non-binding agreement and signed a letter of intent, formally entering a phase of “due diligence”, [...]
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Tags: Contemporary Museum·Honolulu Academy of Arts