Geri (Gary) Druckman

Amazon’s New Subscribe & Save Grocery Service A Good Idea But With The Wrong Merchandise

Amazon is truly trying to make a go of the online grocery segment, and the Subscribe & Save feature it introduced on Tuesday is a good example of how. But the new program—which promises customers automatic delivery of grocery products with discounts of 15 percent and free shipping—is also an illustration of Amazon’s initial weakness

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WITH TWO OVERLAPPING events, Microsoft admitted what we have been saying all along, Vista, aka Windows Me Two (Me II), is a joke that no one wants.

Actions speak louder than PR

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…Good Managers Are Hard To Find

Trying to keep myself in the same “hiring” track mind, I was wondering… If outsourcing is leaving our country borders, since those “Dang Foreigners” thus only as smart but yet faster and MUCH cheaper, will the new niche or IT trend be “IT management?” But then the first question that comes to my mind is - can we manage by “remote control?” Or will we have to relocate? Or, alas, will management be outsourced too?!?

So what are we going to be left with?

Are good managers hard to find?

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So I am also one of those “Dang Foreigners” and I too am feeling, though not officially “slapped” in my face, how employers here prefer to show their “patriotic” spirit by hiring local Naturalized labor, but this article I came across got even me seriously worried.

Accenture CEO William Green said the consulting and outsourcing company will add 8,000 workers in India this year, bringing its total head count in the country to 35,000. That will surpass the 30,000 workers employed in Accenture’s U.S. operations.

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