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	<title>Comments on: Gas station profits, Carrotmob and NAU</title>
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		<title>By: Jon Abad</title>
		<link>http://www.jonabad.com/blog/2008/05/gas-station-profits-carrotmob-and-nau/comment-page-1/#comment-12</link>
		<dc:creator>Jon Abad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 19:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m not sure which part you consider to be the bad business strategy, but Nau had a good thing going which in my opinion, went too fast and then got whacked by bad timing.

It seemed odd to me that they were opening up a store after such a small time in business. It was a great concept though! Not very much inventory at hand, and instead, a sample of each item in each size so that folks could figure out what they wanted to get. Instead of cashiers, they had self service stations to minimize the number of people needed to run the store.

That part of the concept, I was and still am very much behind. I would love to see a place where I can go try things out and compare, then go order them online.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not sure which part you consider to be the bad business strategy, but Nau had a good thing going which in my opinion, went too fast and then got whacked by bad timing.</p>
<p>It seemed odd to me that they were opening up a store after such a small time in business. It was a great concept though! Not very much inventory at hand, and instead, a sample of each item in each size so that folks could figure out what they wanted to get. Instead of cashiers, they had self service stations to minimize the number of people needed to run the store.</p>
<p>That part of the concept, I was and still am very much behind. I would love to see a place where I can go try things out and compare, then go order them online.</p>
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		<title>By: ben</title>
		<link>http://www.jonabad.com/blog/2008/05/gas-station-profits-carrotmob-and-nau/comment-page-1/#comment-11</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 19:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hm, almost seems like a bad business strategy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hm, almost seems like a bad business strategy.</p>
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