The short story is instead of buying online, I ended up dropping a whole lot of money on Baldwin hardware thanks entirely to the excellent service, value, and floor-sample discounts I received from Tony.

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Nick Chipman, a Milwaukee Web page designer who runs a blog, DudeFoods.com, that discusses "any ridiculous food that guys would be into, " such as a five-pound meatball snowman or a 25-cheese pizza, received a sample of Mr. Casselman's caramels back in May.

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Four months ago, Edwin received a pallet of sample drinks.

FORBES: The Product

We received a ton of responses, and here is a small sample.

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Students are compared with a national sample, which means about 11% of kindergarten test-takers in the city received scores in the 99th percentile this year.

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