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Wanna buy a watch? PHL vendor has 'em

When PHL began to upgrade its retail stores in the mid-1990s, rolling carts with one type of merchandise for sale were seen by some as a temporary solution to the problem of limited selection. But they proved popular, and today the carts are an integral part of the broad array of products a traveler can buy at the airport. Beat reporter Linda Loyd has fun, readable feature story today about the merchant who has operated a cart the longest -- 16 years. He is thriving today selling watches, a product that people supposedly weren't buying anymore because they tell time with cell phones and other devices. Read it all at this link...