Here in a cool, tiled vestibule was a small display of their wares: macaroons, membrillo (quince paste), cookies and cakes.
Thereafter transport is by zero-emission golf buggy, through grass-verged orderliness to concrete-and-glass monuments to modernity.In one, Reliance Infocomm has a display of its wares: internet cafés, wireless mobile bank cash-machines and, a bit in the future, "home-entertainment" consoles offering television, a DVD library of Bollywood hits (with karaoke option) and broadband internet access.
There will probably be a big display of energy-efficient wares right up front, under a colorful sign urging you to buy the products to prevent soaring energy prices from siphoning off your tax refund.
It's key to point out however, that people use less discrimination when posting photos to Facebook vs. Flickr, whose primary purpose is socializing around the public display of your photographic wares.
As Eric Best of Mercent says, "the battle for the shopper will be won on the phone"; Amazon thinks owning a bit of that battleground matters.Amazon's competitors are increasingly turning all sorts of devices into windows that display the wares of all sorts of other shops.
The new space, 1stdibs@NYDC, will display the wares of 53 dealers and occupy all 33,000 square feet of the 10th floor of the New York Design Center in Midtown.
Walking the aisles and staffing the booths were characters as fascinating and fashiony as the wide array of wares on display.
BUSINESS DAY The State of the Art column on Thursday, about the range of wares on display at the Consumer Electronics Show, misspelled the name of a Chinese electronics manufacturer at the show.
And the usual display of the cafe's wares are on the counter at the back: cans of Coke and Sprite stacked in neat pyramids, bottles of Tiger beer, jars of Ovaltine, big glass jars of apricots in syrup, Vinataba cigarettes, Juicy Fruit and Doublemint gum in their little revolving display case.
After the speech was over, I spent some time outside at the vendors' tables, seeing as how this might be the last chance to see such a wide display of Feel the Bern wares.
