And that's one of the bigdifferences between a corporate-ownedchain store and a family-ownedbusinessis that dailylife and business are blendedtogether.
Pawel Szalamacha, the dynamic deputy privatisation minister, says that Ruch, the sleepy state-owned chain of newspaper kiosks, will be restructured and sold this summer.
In the early 1980s, when a crime wave threatened to wipe out Jamaica's tourist industry, it was rescued by Sandals, a locally-owned chain, which marketed its all-inclusive hotels as a safe way to visit the island.