"Buying a Sony TV used to be like buying a Mercedes-Benz," said Yoshihiro Ueda, 42, a bank employee shopping for liquid-crystal-display television sets at a discount retailer in central Tokyo.
Beverley Aspinall was spotted by an employee shopping at one of Waitrose's rivals; the incensed employee wrote to say that she was undermining the company by not shopping at Waitrose.
Whether you're hiring a new employee, shopping for some equipment, or hammering out a business partnership, don't be afraid to haggle and make offers that are beneficial to you - the worst the other person can do is say "no".
Film Engine, a seven-employee shop that specializes in brokering loans (known as presales) based on sales of distribution rights, put up $2.5 million to get the film started and land Ms. Duff.
Carlos Gandia, owner of Greenwich Jewelers, which moved to 64 Trinity Place in June 2002, after it could not return to its longtime Greenwich Street location near the trade center site, said the $10,000 that his four-employee shop had already received from the program in June had been helpful.
As for the store where employees shop for insurance, we've negotiated deals with major carriers to come up with a menu of plans, and the company decides which of those menus to choose from.
Now he owns a three-employee shop that also paints bikes for five custom builders in Portland.
The six-employee shop works with over 50 companies, including the Boston Globe and Minnesota investigative news blog MinnPost.
If you can have some of your employees shop with you, all the better because this is one way that you can make the right purchase on executive office chairs; and your own executive office chair is important to consider in the batch as well.
A new Robert Half study finds most bosses are O.K. with employees shopping online while at work.
Firstar employees shopping in supermarkets pass out their business cards to shoppers they see using a credit card from another bank.
