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- <text id=90TT3313>
- <title>
- Dec. 10, 1990: Business Notes:Retailing
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 10, 1990 What War Would Be Like
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 73
- Business Notes
- RETAILING
- The Cover Of Money
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> When is gift wrapping a gift in its own right? When it's
- made of dollar bills. In keeping with that notion, tony Florida
- clothier Maus & Hoffman is offering as gift wrap uncut sheets
- of 32 $1 bills for $55. (The Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- mails such sheets for $47.) Sales people at the company's five
- stores in Palm Beach, Bal Harbour and other playgrounds of the
- rich attach a sticker warning that the wrapping is real money.
- They also provide instructions to iron the sheets and frame
- them or roll them up for storage in the family safe. Of course,
- says owner Bill Maus, "some customers simply cut them up and
- spend them." His stores use about 400 sheets a year.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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