The Agriculture Department gives us new estimates for this fall’s harvest today and the expectation is: it won’t be pretty. Corn is America’s biggest crop, though some experts are questioning whether that should still be the case. There’s more bad news for the U.S. Postal Service. It lost another $5.2 billion last quarter. There’s a debate over whether — and to what extent — Congress should step in to help. And if you think about things we’re not going to be using in the years ahead, small change like pennies might be one of them; so might DVD’s. But if you look at the success if the company Coinstar, which owns the DVD rental kiosk company Redbox, you might come to a different conclusion. Both businesses use machines to sell their products, rather than human employees.
The Agriculture Department gives us new estimates for this fall’s harvest today and the expectation is: it won’t be pretty. Corn is America’s biggest crop, though some experts are questioning whether that should still be the case. There’s more bad news for the U.S. Postal Service. It lost another $5.2 billion last quarter. There’s a debate over whether — and to what extent — Congress should step in to help. And if you think about things we’re not going to be using in the years ahead, small change like pennies might be one of them; so might DVD’s. But if you look at the success if the company Coinstar, which owns the DVD rental kiosk company Redbox, you might come to a different conclusion. Both businesses use machines to sell their products, rather than human employees.
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