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FaceTime with the Content Guy:  One Last Holiday Retailing Lesson

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It was Christmas Eve.  Pre-dawn.  I was out shopping for the essentials we’d need for Christmas dinner, and I turned, as I have almost every year for the past four decades, to what has become my essential source of product.  I also ended up with a business lesson, no extra charge.

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