As a pure no-load shop, nothing stood between Janus and its fleeing clientele in the bust years.
Spotting a couple loading shopping bags into a $380,000 car, she is surprised to learn that their loot came from an outlet store.
The next day, Oct. 4, an unidentified 43-year-old woman was shot in the back as she loaded shopping bags outside a Michaels craft store in Fredericksburg, Va., about 50 miles south of Washington.
Two other top (by assets) no-load shops, Janus and T. Rowe Price, seem to have baby stock funds under warming lights.
Who needs a car when the front-mounted cargo box will carry kids or a load of shopping, and the motor glides you up the hills?
For others, it simply held out the promise of an easier trip with a load of shopping bags or a pair of aging knees.
Some homeless people contrive the illusion of owning property by bundling found and mostly useless material into great aggregates that they load onto shopping carts or other wheeled vehicles.
While there is no industrywide data, some e-commerce companies estimate that only about 3percentt of shoppers who visit an e-commerce site buy something, and when they do load their shopping carts, as many as two-thirds abandon them.
They walked out past the western-branded clothes shops and supermarkets, the new coffee bars, the car rank where drivers pull up in imported 4x4s, which they then load with shopping as their employer settles on the back seats, past the uniformed security guards, into the darkness of the evening, and started looking for transport home.
I grab a few of the worst offenders and head for the checkout, just in time to see the customer in front of me refuse the offer of a plastic bag and load her shopping into one she brought with her.
Aside from order execution, the shopping component will put an extra technical strain on the site beyond the traffic volume, as thousands if not millions of people load up shopping carts and jump from page to page.
