The snow was coming down hard by the time Bailey and Hugo got back to the store. Still, the floors were full of after-Christmas shoppers and the customer service department was busy with sales associates processing returns. Hugo was pleased. Beginning with Black Friday, Prince’s had had a good holiday season everywhere but in their Tokyo store. He sighed, knowing a trip to Tokyo was in his future. His father had never had the patience to do business in Japan, but Hugo rather enjoyed it. He never doubted that a current of cut-throat competition ran underneath the culture of politeness, but he liked the civility and formality of the way business was conducted. His father had been slow to expand into the Asian markets, and he was still wary of the extravagant shopping mall theme parks found in Dubai, but Hugo had...

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