--- In [email protected], "George DeForest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > > > The whole emphasis of the US recert course > > is setting up Enlightenment Centers inside malls > > across the country. These will sell everything from > > TM to Vata Tea. National advertising campaign > > to begin too. Recerts are being told the movement > > will pay for everything. Pay their salaries, plus > > salaries of 4 assistants, plus rental space, everything. > > > > But it seems Maharishi thinks these stores > > will be profitable right away and what if they aren't? > > IIRC, didnt MAPI and its Health and Wholeness stores > fire everybody last year (or did everyone walk out?) > because they could not afford to pay salaries?? > > if so, it would seem the "new" business model > has failed to learn from recent past mis-steps!
******** Some rajas may be seeing the success of the Aveda chain http://aveda.com/index.tmpl?ngextredir=1 as a model for selling MAPI stuff, but Aveda sells the whole enchilada in beauty care, including make-up, which MAPI does not sell. I don't see 95% of the MAPI stuff moving at all in a mall store. And as far as the Maharishi Channel being beamed into the stores, I'm sure that window shoppers eating their hot dogs on a stick are going to be fascinated by scenes like the one I just saw late in the mou.org press conference of 6Apr2005: a six-armed Hindu deity on the screen while the pundits chant the Rig Veda...sure to be a big hit. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
