Faculty News | New York Times | 29 Sep 2012
Paper or Plastic? Some Communities Say Neither
Re: Nancy Koehn
Nancy F. Koehn, a retail industry historian at the Harvard Business School, said the rules seemed likely to spread across the country even though they "interrupt the grace and fabric" of the relationship between consumer and retailer. In that way, she said, it is distinct from previous environmental movements, like charging a nickel deposit for a soda bottle, that people could pay without thinking.

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