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"Day in the Work Life": Gift Store Buyer

On this week's "A Day In the Work Life" -- our regular look at how folks trade time for money -- we browse the aisles with a gift store buyer.

Buyer Liz Mercier, with friend, in a Patina stockroom. (Photo: Courtesy Liz Mercier)

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