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	<title>Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent &#187; Retailers</title>
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	<description>Scott Bradford has been building web sites and using them to say what he thinks since 1995, which tended to get him in trouble with power-tripping assistant principals at the time. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University, but has spent most of his career (so far) working on public- and private-sector web sites. He is not a member of any political party, and brands himself an ‘independent constitutional conservative.’ In addition to holding down a day job and blogging about challenging subjects like politics, religion, and technology, Scott is also a devout Catholic, gun-owner, bike rider, and music lover with a wife and two cats.</description>
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		<title>Truth in Advertising</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/07/17/truth-in-advertising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote just over a year ago about how dishonorable our society has become in many ways. One particular area I pointed out was in business how things are advertised very simply (e.g., &#8216;unlimited Internet!&#8217;) while the reality is often much more complex and contradictory (e.g., &#8217;2gb per month&#8217;—which is not &#8216;unlimited&#8217;). Another area of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Kindle 2 E-Reader</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overview I wrote back in April about why I didn&#8217;t have an e-reader, even though I&#8217;m a fairly avid reader. Then, two months later, I ordered an Amazon Kindle 2. The only thing that really changed in those two months was the Kindle&#8217;s price, which dropped precipitously from $250 to a much more reasonable (but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Buy In-Store Pickup: 0 for 2</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2009/08/28/best-buy-in-store-pickup-0-for-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in January 2007, I wrote about a poor experience I had with Best Buy&#8217;s in-store pickup. I really like the idea of in-store pickup. In theory (and as-advertised) it works like this: you go to Best Buy&#8217;s web site, put the stuff you want in your electronic cart, say you want in-store pickup, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Businesses Behind the Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some businesses just don&#8217;t even seem to be trying. This came to mind this afternoon when I spent a few minutes in a Borders book store. I like book stores, generally, and book prices in these stores are usually comparable with prices online. Stores like Borders and Barnes and Noble need to compete with online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beggars Can&#8217;t Be Choosers</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2008/11/18/beggars-cant-be-choosers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I try to be a generous person. Usually, when I have something that has any value that I am replacing, I&#8217;m happy to give the old thing away either for free (usually) or at the same cost I paid to refurbish it (like, if I upped an old computers&#8217; memory for $50 to make it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innocent Until Proven Guilty</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2008/08/22/innocent-until-proven-guilty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few things annoy me more than when I get punished for the indiscretions of others. You might think this doesn&#8217;t happen often—and that&#8217;s true, if you&#8217;re talking about innocent people being charged and convicted for crimes—but there are plenty of non-criminal examples where you and I unjustly pay the price for the bad things that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Car (With Pictures)</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2008/05/07/the-new-car-with-pictures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 16:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, this will be my last car-related post for a while ;-). Despite what I had reported earlier, the dealership was able to get everything set for us on Monday so we were able to drive off the lot in our new 2008 Subaru Outback 2.5i Monday evening. The only missing piece was the bike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple iTunes &amp; Amazon MP3</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2007/10/26/apple-itunes-amazon-mp3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overview I purchase my music legally. My collection—over 4,200 songs—has been laboriously obtained over many years through legitimate music retailers, and I allow myself a monthly budget of about $20 for buying music (sometimes more, sometimes less depending on my other, more important financial obligations). I am, needless to say, a music lover. Pink Floyd, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Bad &#8216;Best Buy&#8217; Experience; Network Infrastructure Upgrades</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2007/01/07/another-bad-best-buy-experience-network-infrastructure-upgrades/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a Best Buy gift card from my parents for Christmas and needed to buy some network and systems equipment, so I went online and got an order together last Friday. They have a nifty feature where you can place an order online (and pay online), then go pick it up same-day from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas In April: Slated for 2015</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2001/12/12/christmas-in-april-slated-for-2015/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scottbradford.us/2001/12/12/christmas-in-april-slated-for-2015/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call me crazy, but I always thought that the Christmas season—which of course revolves around the Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ—probably ought to stick to the four weeks before Christmas, and then jingle around until perhaps New Years. This seems reasonable, as that&#8217;s about as long as the Advent period runs before Christmas [...]]]></description>
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