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way-to-busy-to-fight-the-mail-traffic kinds of customers

English translation: agree that it's too... but it's all mall rather than mail

20:22 Sep 10, 2006
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Bus/Financial - Management / merger
English term or phrase: way-to-busy-to-fight-the-mail-traffic kinds of customers
Sears bought Lands' End mainly because it craved the catalog retailer's brand identity as a well as affluent, loyal, and way-to-busy-to-fight-the-mail-traffic kinds of customers.
alen botica (X)
Local time: 00:46
Selected answer:agree that it's too... but it's all mall rather than mail
Explanation:
customers who are much too busy to deal with traffic at the mall or getting to the mall... so they shop the Land's End catalogue... by mail/phone/Internet....

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Note added at 11 mins (2006-09-10 20:34:38 GMT)
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oops... for the "all" ... but's mall....
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Marian Greenfield
Local time: 18:46
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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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5 +5agree that it's too... but it's all mall rather than mail
Marian Greenfield
5too
Ghyslaine LE NAGARD


Discussion entries: 5





  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
too


Explanation:
as in too much

Ghyslaine LE NAGARD
New Caledonia
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in EnglishEnglish
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +5
agree that it's too... but it's all mall rather than mail


Explanation:
customers who are much too busy to deal with traffic at the mall or getting to the mall... so they shop the Land's End catalogue... by mail/phone/Internet....

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Note added at 11 mins (2006-09-10 20:34:38 GMT)
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oops... for the "all" ... but's mall....

Marian Greenfield
Local time: 18:46
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Balaban Cerit
5 mins
agree  Mark Nathan
1 hr
agree  Will Matter: Customers that don't want to deal with all of the inevitable problems and hassles (including traffic and parking) that going to the mall invariably involves choose to shop online.
8 hrs
agree  airmailrpl: too...mall..
10 hrs
agree  Alfa Trans (X)
15 hrs
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