Kids today - August 1, 2009

In the summer of 2007, Michael Schaul hadn’t worked the sales floor in five to six years. He’d been staying busy running three USA Baby stores in Texas with his wife Karen. And then things went into high gear as he worked to re-brand his locations as Lone Star Baby & Kids. But the company president happened to be on the sales floor one day when a customer walked up, needing help...

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