Chuck Carpenter's passport looks more like an exotic guidebook than an official document.
It's been maligned for its content and accused of being the other opiate of the masses.
It seems to start earlier each year: Garland, lights and Christmas trees appear as early as October in some shop windows and malls; holiday music - a siren's call to consumers - floats through department stores and weaves around clothes racks and jewelry cases in November.
NOT THAT ANYONE ever said it was easy, but consumer marketing is about to get harder. A trio of trends will create a new world in which marketers will have to learn new rules in order to prosper. T...
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