Among the television footage streaming on Italian television in the evening were images of rolls of Parmesan cheese spilling out of the open door of a warehouse.

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As a long-time New York fashionista, when I think sample sale, the accompanying image flashing through my head is still the warehouse packed with ecstatic women rummaging through racks of designer threads, elbowing fellow shoppers out of the way in a tizzy of crazed designer discount glory.

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Adam Sandler plays Barry Egan, a frightened fellow in a bright-blue suit, a nerd who sells merchandise out of a San Fernando Valley warehouse and stammers his way through the simplest encounters.

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They lived next to the warehouse, and told us that stinking water ran out of the building.

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Draap sells horse meat out of a Dutch warehouse owned by a company called Nemijtek BV, in Breda, the Netherlands, according to Jeffrey Grootenboer, Nemijtek's director.

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Bank teller and warehouse manager round out the top five happiest jobs in America, with index scores of 4.14 and 4.13, respectively.

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