{"id":3207,"date":"2009-07-29T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2009-07-29T03:00:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T08:00:04","slug":"vendor-gifts-as-proxy-for-economic-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3207","title":{"rendered":"Vendor Gifts as Proxy for Economic Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I buy things for the lab (which may not be a true statement in the near future; we shall see), and some vendors like to thank me for my business by throwing in some item that I didn&#8217;t buy but might find useful or enticing.  I have gotten t-shirts, beanbags for juggling (or possibly hackey-sack), the ever-useful thumb drive that is 3 generations smaller than what&#8217;s on the market (<em>128 MB.  Oh, joy<\/em>), and , of course, office supplies like pens, highlighters and post-it notes emblazoned with the company logo.   Often, however, the gift is food of some sort.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that in the recent tougher economic climate that the companies engaging in this practice had been scaling back or discontinuing their give-away advertising efforts.  I&#8217;m happy to report that the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/asyouwishbcs\/2333921652\/\">lab snacks<\/a>&#8221; assortment we get from one optics vendor, which had been downsized for much of the past year (or at least <em>ours<\/em> had been), have returned to the full cornucopia.  Full recovery can&#8217;t be too far down the road.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I buy things for the lab (which may not be a true statement in the near future; we shall see), and some vendors like to thank me for my business by throwing in some item that I didn&#8217;t buy but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3207\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-silly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}