On 2006-12-17 14:01:04 -0800, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net said:

> Insightful comments like "I don't like it, therefore it will fail"

"You and bureaucrats are all wrong about everything" isn't insightful 
either, nor is either characterization of the other's argument within 
hailing distance of reality.

I don't like it, it's true, I saw them fail in my community.  I assume 
they will fail elsewhere due, because I live in a broad and diverse 
community, not because I don't like them.  Hel, I'd generally assume my 
tastes are at the end of any bellcurve.

I read news articles two years ago that indicated they had expanded too 
rapidly and sold their doughnut like a $100 tennis shoe. Admittedly 
some CAN sell a $100 tennis shoe. Maybe the glamor doughnut's time 
hasn't arrived yet. Maybe they have.

Where are you that it's a boom market?

In the end do you think that doughnuts have the universal appeal that 
coffee and hamburgers have?  I'd be surprised.  Maybe a general pastry 
shop, particularly one that sold either good coffee or good lunches.  
But a take-it-or-leave-it sugar ball?  Sheesh.  I do hope at a personal 
level that it will fail, I admit.

> ...are on a par with the above-mentioned Japanese bureaucrats who, esteemed
> though they may be, were remarkably inaccurate in their assessments of
> what would do well in Japan.

I may know nothing, and you may know nothing, but of course we're both 
brilliiant compared to thousands of esteemed Japanese bureaucrats, 
right?
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Thank you and have a nice day.