About 60 percent polled had already started combing trips and errands together instead of making separate runs.
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"I need to go by the bank, have a little spending cash, " he added to his list of errands.
In danger of completing no errands at all, he tested the door of the health-food store.
It wasn't near a supermarket or in the "path of running errands, " as he put it.
Somehow the dust continues to fall: Met-Mex employees can be seen on vacuuming errands in many neighbourhoods of the city.
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He has hidden new hunting and fishing equipment in his truck and gone out for a drink with friends instead of doing errands.
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He also predicts that companies will reap the productivity benefits as their employees increasingly take care of all their errands over the Internet, thus freeing them up for other tasks.
Of the surveyed workers asked to explain their excuse for playing hooky, 30 percent said they simply needed to relax, 22 percent wanted to catch up on sleep, 14 percent wanted to take care of some personal errands, and 9 percent wanted to miss a meeting or finagle some extra time for an overdue project.
What kind of customers are shopping while running errands and, most importantly, are they spending enough money to make a mobile build a smart financial move?
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Americans also spend lots of time shopping, cooking, running errands and keeping house.
Others spend half of their days doing laundry, running personal errands and picking up kids.
For example, the DOL has opined that there is no employment relationship between a for-profit hospice and individuals who volunteer their services to perform activities of a charitable nature, such as running errands, sitting with patients so that a family may have a break, and going to funerals.
More recently, adult women have taken to wearing yoga pants for all kinds of non-yogic activities, such as running errands around town.
Most of us are more likely to be zipping around town doing errands in our electric cars.
Parsons left the house to run errands, while the boy -- the 15-year-old son of the chief's girlfriend -- remained in the home.
About a third of big pickup owners say they use their vehicles daily for shopping errands, and about 85% will take their trucks on a family vacation at least once a year, says Alexander Edwards of Strategic Vision Inc.
At one of my first gigs out of college, at an auction house in New York City, the owner of the company never wanted to bring the female employees on work errands alone in his car, and thus brought the only male employee every time.
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Harrison lives in Michigan and is one of those annoyingly prolific writers who churns out books like most people churn out errands lists.
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