One big problem is that Caribou put out only a sketchy press release about the 80 closures, not revealing a list of closure locations.

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What was a bad idea was all the money that was put out there, and that, in fact, was a huge problem.

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It was a word that people used to tidy up and put the problem out of sight.

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Google Reader set out to tackle this problem but only reached a certain point before it was put into maintenance.

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