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...She fiddles with a mechanical toy Ferris wheel and, to our surprise, manages to bring it to life. Sort of. (The motor grinds but the wheel does not turn.)...
...Insurance and unlimited maintenance come as part of the package, with monthly subscriptions starting from £52. dashrides.com...
...He patented his creation in 1975, and began selling it three years later in Hungarian stores as the Buvos Kocka, or Magic Cube....
...It signals happiness and vitality, as well as mince pies and gluttony....
...The moment her well-to-do mother is snubbed in a store by her own white laundryman (“And I don’t even shop at Sears except for appliances”) makes you chuckle, then shiver....
...It leads men to the cave of happiness, and also towards death....
...Even boys’ toys are cheaper than those aimed at girls....
...At times it stops and I am reminded of how I used to have to pull my children out of toy stores. Each time Pepper gets distracted, I stroke its head to recapture its attention, as instructed by Aurore....
...Depots of companies like FTSE-100 Ashtead are stuffed with toys like compressors and pneumatic drills for men in low-slung jeans. The trick is to have enough gear on hand to meet demand....
...The online retailer, tagline “the sexual happiness people”, expects a busy period ahead....
...“Colour your life with happiness,” exclaims the website of the Tourism Authority of Thailand....
...One man’s exciting new toy is another’s joy-stifling instrument of exploitation. Amazon can offer books and more at a lower price because it spends less to offer the same products a store does....
...Hamleys, the legendary UK toy retailer, which opened its first Moscow store last year, has shown interest....
...Few parents would give their child an unlimited credit line in a toy shop. Yet many do the digital equivalent by sharing the passwords to app stores operated by Google and Apple....
...“There are certain product categories and situations where people will pay for it, whether it’s medicines or toys for the holiday.”...
...Tim modeled the device after one he had seen in a store. That one cost twenty-two dollars, but “mine was cheaper,” he told Ray....
...Its Music Unlimited service will also launch on the Vita. But there are a few less than satisfying aspects to the Vita....
...The opening up of China, from which an astonishing 89 per cent of American toys come, has fixed matters a bit because toys nowadays are, by historical standards, inexpensive....
...Several leading chain stores, including Toys R Us, RadioShack, Petsmart and both Barnes & Noble and Borders, the booksellers, are supporting a new delivery service called ShopRunner that is modelled on...
...figurines, a toy cannon, a miniature red London bus and a tiny tractor....
...Instead of analysis, the author and her husband look back at the end of it all and conclude that examining goods on supermarket and hardware store shelves “had made our trips to the mall and the supermarket...
...The merits of foursomes aren’t confined to the speed of play, the unique relationship it creates with your partner or the unlimited scope for psychological turmoil during the round....
...It also launched a sports and leisure store on its UK site, and a new toy store on its French site....
...And in stores high ceilings might “encourage us to see a use for a product, thereby encouraging us to buy more”....
...Despite the Beanies’ insidious cuteness factor, Warner, a former failed actor and toy salesman, wisely chose to keep the little creatures out of large department stores....
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