Given that one of REI's selling propositions is an extremely liberal return policy, these frills make sense.

FORBES: Backpackers meet bottom line

Given REI's liberal merchandise return policy, these frills make economic sense.

FORBES: Backpackers meet the bottom line

Since taking office, Mr Dzurinda, a railway planner and economist by training, has made some big changes in policy and in attitudes, all helping to return Slovakia to the western liberal model.

ECONOMIST: Mikulas Dzurinda, Slovakia��s turn for the better