By selling more stock, stores can increase their volume and use the extra buying power to negotiate lower prices in future. It becomes a virtuous circle.

This is very effective, particularly in department stores. Wide aisles are generally used by supermarkets to create space around goods which shoppers will always buy, such as frozen food, while narrower aisles help sell more impulse-driven items such as cakes or wine.

Stores need to freshen their appearance more often these days because consumers are getting bored quickly.

With the phenomenal market growth of Power and [the Power5 processor], we have a lot of interested parties. It's only been discussions, but they are interested in the market performance of Power and AIX.

What this task requires in the way of higher intellectual gifts is a sense of unity and a power of judgement, raised to a marvelous pitch of vision, which easily grasps and dismisses a thousand remote possibilities an ordinary mind would labor to identify, and wear itself out in doing so.

The Internet is stuck in the flower-power days of the '60s during which people thought the world would be beautiful if you are just nice.