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<DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=3>>>>> I
don't think it is a total Disney lack of support,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=3>>>>> but by the
merchandising people.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=3>[...]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=3>>>>> We need to educate
the people making merchandise </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=3>>>>> that we want
more Scrooge related merchandise.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=3>>>>> They produce
what they sell!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I guess the problem is the same
verywhere.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Companies, stores and store departments are no longer owned
and run by people who chose such or such specialty because they are interested
in it (selling computers, producing movies, working for Disney not for
prestige or money but out of love of the Disney legacy, ...) but by people with
a management degree of some sort whose only concern is getting the highest paid
job the quickest way possible, in whatever branch, and just apply the same
generic one-size-fits-all management and marketing formula to anything and
everything, with their minds focused only on the next step toward
millionaireship as the head of any company.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>One month they sell books in a huge store but never read
anything, the next month they run the computer department without knowing how
turn on one, the next year they run a car dealership or an luxury underwear
store, the year after that they run the animation department of a new studio,
and eventually end up running all or part of Universal Studios or IBM or The
Walt Disney Company or General Motors, and keep making stupid decisions or
agreeing to the stupid decisions of the next greedy generation, who applies the
exact same method.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>In the end, nobody cares about anything, and even the most
obvious decisions are not even considered by those in charge while thousands of
people do come up with those simple ideas and the demand is huge, just because
the powers that be have zero knowledge of, nor interest in, whatever it is
they are selling.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>:(</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Olivier</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>