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A Little Less Kaboodle

by A. L. Venable

This is another tale of how the economic downturn is affecting businesses. After work this evening, I stopped by Kitchen Kaboodle on NE Broadway to pick up a few supplies for a candy-making project I want to do over the weekend. As the sales associate was placing my receipt in my canvas bag, she mentioned [...]

02.25.2009 See the rest → 6 comments

Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas….

by Dieselboi

photo.jpg Originally uploaded by dieselboi Yep, it is that time of the year again. Pull out those credit cards you had stashed in the freezer for emergencies – it is Christmas shopping season! I haven’t been shopping much at the big stores lately, so don’t know if this is the first spotting of Christmasness, but [...]

09.22.2008 See the rest → 8 comments

We can’t save them all, can we?

by A. L. Venable

While it’s pretty much a given that the economy isn’t doing so well these days, I was still bummed to read an Oregonian article last week on small businesses and the difficulty in getting loans these days, to see a place I visit — Barberama/Javarama — as the focus of the story. In brief, Nicole, [...]

09.14.2008 See the rest → 4 comments