How snooty staff at luxury stores actually boost sales
ByAimee Picchio oinShare0 o Groucho Marx, who famously said he never wanted to belong to a club that would accept him, may have missed his calling in luxury goods. It turns out that snobby staff at...
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It’s spring ... glorious spring, finally.I saw my first robin of the year the other day and the flower bulbs are starting to poke up through the ground. I could wait no longer. This morning I decided...
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Oh, the good life, full of funSeems to be the idealMm, the good life lets you hideAll the sadness you feelYou won't really fall in loveFor you can't take the chanceSo please be honest with...
View ArticleFor 125 years, the Hotel du Cap has played host to scandals, stars, illicit...
by Dana KennedyF. Scott Fitzgerald famously immortalized the breathtaking Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, perched on a rocky promontory in the Mediterranean midway between St. Tropez and Monaco, when he wrote...
View ArticleBritish socialite Annabelle Bond has been accused of crying poverty while...
By David Millward, US CorrespondentIn papers filed in the New York Supreme Court, Warren Lichtenstein, a billionaire US hedge fund manager, said his former fiancée lavished herself with “furs and...
View ArticleMY WRITERS SITE: All successful people are big dreamers
MY WRITERS SITE: All successful people are big dreamers: “All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day ...
View ArticleWealthy Isle of Man residents worth £4.2bn Billion
by Duncan FoulkesThe island’s richest men have wealth amounting to a cool £4.2 billion, according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2014.But by far the most well off is billionaire John Whittaker and...
View ArticleJudge’s ruling smacks down wealthy Forest Hill families for ‘acting like...
Joseph Brean In a legal ruling that is by turns sarcastic, exasperated, and downright hilarious, an Ontario judge has smacked down a lawsuit between two wealthy families in Toronto’s most exclusive...
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