The bodies were discovered just before 1 a.m. when an employee of the shop happened to drive by, noticed lights still on almost three hours after closing time and went inside to see why.
An old guy at the coffee shop happened to see it and asked me if I was a dentist.
Out of necessity, she has become more efficient: shopping, even grocery shopping, happens online, and meetings are short and to the point.
The reason for the online shopping surge on what could be called Black Monday is that most online shopping happens at work, where people have faster connections through their office networks.
It makes perfect sense, of course, because a vast majority of shopping happens offline, and porting these services onto handsets gives you the chance to use the applications when you actually need them.
Since much of my shopping happens online, I've gotten into the habit of looking at the current month's photo in the calendar before I decide whether to click the "buy" button on a nice-to-have-but-not-essential purchase.
Finally, because the troubled Larchmont shops happen to be clustered in a small area — 13 stores in just four blocks — the visual impact is striking.
That's a lot of people and data to not have shopping happen here.
Brutto Gusto in Berlin isn't technically a design store, but a flower shop that happens to sell: a) such beautiful blooms that they're design feats in themselves; and b) some dazzling examples of contemporary design in the vases that go with them.
