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...Conversely, even if you got a great price on a rug that doesn't fit in your apartment, you're still a sucker. Early on, I decided that I much prefer simple, single-knot tribal rugs that have a homespun quality to them, as opposed to the grand, Persian, double-knot silk carpets that go well in a living room full of ivory elephant tusks. This may mean my tastes aren't very elevated, but it has saved me a lot of money...
...bargaining killing time on a layover in Istanbul, last January. A rug trader lured me into his shop and showed me a beautiful Anatolian kilim. "I'm on my way to Iraq, I don't want to buy a rug," I kept telling the guy, as the price kept plummeting...
...least expensive workers isn't nearly as imperative in tie manufacturing as it might be elsewhere. There's also the convenient fact that customers are willing to pay a premium to shop at Brooks: its ties retail from $75 to $165. "If the customer doesn't care about the price, then the retailer shouldn't care about the cost," says Mike Todaro, managing director of the American Apparel Producers' Network...
Brooks, though, isn't oblivious to the price it pays for goods. The company's other U.S. factory, a shirt plant in North Carolina, provides a good comparison. Brooks sells more than 3.5 million shirts a year but makes only about 250,000 at its factory, which is reserved for higher-end wares such as made to order and the Golden Fleece brand. Most of the others come from Malaysia. "Part of it is the prestige of having shirts handcrafted in our own factory," says Dixon. "It's a marketing initiative." The tie factory, though, offers no such appeal. Even...
...Clover machine costs $2.25 for a “tall” and $2.50 for a “grande,” about 50 cents more than a traditional brewed cup of dripped coffee from Starbucks in Harvard Square. “The difference is well worth the price,” Toro said. Doris Donoghue, a registered nurse at University Health Services, who called herself a coffee “aficionado” but not an expert, said the extra cost for the pressed coffee was well worth it. Some, however, were confused by the proper etiquette...