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FTD.com forgot to deliver flowers to Tip's girlfriend on Valentine's Day, but that didn't stop them from delivering the bill. When calls to FTD.com didn't go through, Tip launched the fearsome Executive Email Carpet Bomb. He wrote:
Perhaps $75 is not a lot to you. Perhaps the happiness of your customers does not mean a lot to you either. Perhaps, for a company that's been around for nearly 100 years, you simply forgot to mark your calendar that yesterday was Valentine's Day.
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Yes, just in time for Valentine's Day, a tale of
love lost, betrayal and perhaps even revenge. Former TJ Maxx executive vice president, Alex Smith has left his post at TJ Maxx and begun a new life as CEO of spiraling-into-the-dirt home furnishings merchant Pier 1. Sadly, TJ just doesn't want to let Alex go. From Reuters:
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Forbes has tallied up the 25 most expensive cities for a first date, out of a possible 200 cities with a minimum population of 100,000:
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Well, as reader Christy points out in her email, "Some people are cynical, but I really believe it."
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Okay, it's official:
Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is the best coffee chain ever. From Consumerist Ben, this flabbergasting story of corporate caring:
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Adorable Japanese girls are sick of the expense and tedium of slavishly giving all the men in their lives chocolates on Valentine's Day.
From Yahoo News:
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Consumer Affairs has posted an expose of It's Just Lunch, a match-making company that for a "modest" fee will listen to you gush forth your wildest dreams of dating a banker or a neurosurgeon and then hook you up with a salivating, dead-eyed landscaper at the local mental asylum.
Here's the link. Now here's our take.
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