RETAILING: The Cover Of Money

The Cover Of Money

When is gift wrapping a gift in its own right? When it's made of dollar bills. In keeping with that notion, tony Florida clothier Maus & Hoffman is offering as gift wrap uncut sheets of 32 $1 bills for $55. (The Bureau of Engraving and Printing mails such sheets for $47.) Sales people at the company's five stores in Palm Beach, Bal Harbour and other playgrounds of the rich attach a sticker warning that the wrapping is real money. They also provide instructions to iron the sheets and frame them or roll them up for storage in the family safe. Of...

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