Price of gold sends owners digging

TIM POTTER — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:17 CST

In Wichita and across the nation, the high price of gold is bringing items out of jewelry boxes and into businesses eager to buy a metal that has become extra precious in a troubled economy.

It often happens with jewelry that people have put away and forgotten about. Sometimes, the jewelry loses its sentimental value.

Now, owners of jewelry and other gold items are trying to cash in on a price that has topped $1,100 for an ounce of pure gold, local gold merchants say.

Disc fever

Christopher Borrelli — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:08 CDT

CAROL STREAM, Ill. —The Netflix warehouse in Carol Stream does not appear on any map. Your odds of finding it are only slightly better than your odds of stumbling upon a rare insect in a field of weeds. The warehouse is, after all, one of those mythical New Economy temples. You know it must exist somewhere, because a P.O. box on every Netflix envelope suggests it does. You imagine this place processing your Netflix queue with magical efficiency, possibly with Oompa Loompas in matching jumpsuits of Netflix red dancing about.

The truth is stranger.

After a period of begging Netflix to let me poke around its clandestine Chicago-area hub, and see how its ubiquitous red-enveloped packages are processed, I was given an address and a time to arrive and asked not to blab about it.

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Price of gold sends owners digging

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