{"id":297,"date":"2008-01-08T16:49:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T00:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/01\/08\/one-stop-shopping\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T16:49:50","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T00:49:50","slug":"one-stop-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/01\/one-stop-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Stop Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see that Paul Ked\u00adrosky is talk\u00ading about a <a href=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/07\/i_heart_departm.html\">resur\u00adgence of depart\u00adment stores<\/a>, based on the fact that lots of people want one-stop shop\u00adping rather than going from store to store. Fun\u00adnily enough, Wal\u00admart has been meet\u00ading pre\u00adcisely this need for years; I gath\u00ader one of the major demo\u00adgraph\u00adics for Wal\u00admart is har\u00adried moth\u00aders with chil\u00addren in tow who also don\u2019t want to schlep from store to store. Now, if depart\u00adment stores would actu\u00adally make it more pleas\u00adant to shop in them, and more effi\u00adcient, they\u2019d get more of my busi\u00adness as well. Effi\u00adciency to me means a reas\u00adon\u00adable selec\u00adtion of products, not only cloth\u00ading, organ\u00adised in a way that means I can find what I\u2019m look\u00ading for (or find out they don\u2019t have it) in a short peri\u00adod of time. People to help in the pro\u00adcess would be a def\u00adin\u00adite plus, but some logic in where things are would make up for that. Rolling carts for people push\u00ading strollers or bug\u00adgies would help as&nbsp;well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that Paul Ked\u00adrosky is talk\u00ading about a resur\u00adgence of depart\u00adment stores, based on the fact that lots of people want one-stop shop\u00adping rather than going from store to store. Fun\u00adnily enough, Wal\u00admart has been meet\u00ading pre\u00adcisely this need for years; I gath\u00ader one of the major demo\u00adgraph\u00adics for Wal\u00admart is har\u00adried moth\u00aders with \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/01\/one-stop-shopping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cOne-Stop Shopping\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}