As the late-November snowfall blanketed the strip malls of Wasilla, Merchant drove his charges in an unheated van to a remote parking lot.
Take Advertising Age's coverage of MacDonald's departure: Merchants drive sales in quarterly bursts with coupons and price promotions; marketers build brand equity over years.
""The daily deal companies are version 1.0 of great things you can build with the Internet that help local merchants drive foot traffic into the door.
The disclosure of the memorandums last week prompted Gov. Gray Davis and other California officials to claim vindication for their assertion that scheming by energy merchants had driven up electricity prices by billions of dollars.
He was said to have been born in Lyon, France, the son of a wealthy wool merchant who was driven mad by economic ruin and a broken heart.
Groupon also says that the launch of Reserve has drummed up renewed interest from merchant partners, and driven a lot more traffic to its B2B sales site.
The market was also battered by 9/11 and the recession, which merchants say drove down business 25 to 40percentt, as well as industry changes that have cut into profits.
Facebook showed off a richer view of content shared from Pinterest, which should be good for that image-sharing site and the e-commerce merchants it drives traffic to.
The artists and scrappier merchants who were driven out of their lofts now come back here to sell their wares.
Ivar Hyden, who owns the Backstreet Gallery just off Main Street, said the number of Main Street vacancies shows that some longtime merchants are being driven out by rapidly rising rents.
With his crappy forename and unpleasant diction, he aroused the contempt of his more aristocratic peers, who left him in no doubt of the full horror of bullies' victimhood until he grew tall enough and spoke posh enough to join the Merchant Navy and be driven still further round the bend.
