Retailers are also sensing more shopper experimentation. This fall, supermarkets Safeway Inc. and Kroger Co. noted that sales of their store brands are on the rise. “In this economy, customers are much more willing to try a private-label item, and we’re seeing signs that this is happening more and more as the year progresses,” Kroger CEO David Dillon said on a conference call.
The Big Money has a brief post on Obama’s support of ethanol, which is surely a cynical political ploy to win Iowa votes, though the post says he’s considering the Iowa governor as Agriculture secretary, something that would be sure to continue the ethanol boondoggle. I would have liked to have seen an exploration of Obama’s ethanol policies, but I guess that leaves it for someone else to do.
I'm concerned that the more ink-stained of our colleagues are taking the wrong message from Wednesday's extraordinary sales.
Hint: it wasn't about the newspapers.
The people buying papers Wednesday had an emotional connection with Barack Obama, not the paper. They used the paper as a permanent, undeniable record of the moment. Look how many people you can find in flickr posing with the paper, in the mirror image of a hostage photo taken to prove the captive was still alive on a particular day. The paper better serves this purpose than a print-out of a web page. It’s more real, it’s cheap, and it is easily portable through time.
More here:
http://timwindsor.com/2008/11/05/why-people-had-to-have-a-newspaper-today-and-what-does-that-tell-us-about-a-business-model/
Posted by Tim Windor on Thu 6 Nov 2008 at 10:09 AM
yes it was the election of one of the leader who as all leadership qualities and the person who can bring out a change in america and people.The election of Barack Obama produced a clamor for newspapers that even publishers said they had never seen such an election.
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Posted by julianrobt on Mon 10 Nov 2008 at 06:18 AM