Especially since, at some Square stores, it has been much more difficult to find workers this holiday season than in previous ones.
That's the case at HMV, according to Dermot Smyth, the rock manager at HMV for the last five years.
Fun with Reindeer
Savage, of Quincy, Mass., is a man who has known his calling for 15 years, ostensibly before he grew his long white beard and before his stomach had expanded to appropriately jolly proportions.
Savage admits that the beard is about four years old, but he denies that the paunch is that young.
"I've had this belly for 250 years," he merrily jokes, laughing normally at first, then shifting into the "Ho ho ho!" that has become second nature.
Last Sunday, lines stayed disappointingly short for Santa's booth at the Prudential, a mall without many stores geared toward children.
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