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Bobbie Bobbie Ann Mason in the New York Times:
ONE day last summer I was shopping at a natural-foods supermarket. Outside it was 100 degrees or so, but inside it was arctic. The cashier told me she was cold, but the staff wasn’t allowed to change the temperature. This sounded familiar. Last winter a friend who was in a sweltering computer chain store asked why the workers didn’t turn the heat down. He was told that the thermostat was in Houston.
In Kentucky we’re used to remote control. Historically, outsiders have dominated the place like a kudzu invasion….
While you’re there, read A Windy Walmart, in which Wal-mart comes to the West Side of Chicago.
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