Retail Roundup

Talk about your Mickey Mouse promotions.

Aloha Airlines, which just had its first flight from John Wayne

Airport to Honolulu, announced the start, to the press at least, by

sending out Mickey Mouse Club ears with an attached little note.

“We’re all ears when it comes to providing our customers with the

creature comforts of home,” reads the note, which comes directly from

“your friends at Aloha Airlines.”

It doesn’t say anything about our buddies giving us more legroom or

what the increase in gas prices will do to the cost of that ticket from

here to Hawaii. But we figure that’s OK.

Who can worry when Mickey is smiling at you? (See answer below).

Fashion and spring mix together

Despite our on again, off again hot weather, spring apparently is

officially here, say the good folk at Chiasso, which has a store at

Fashion Island. And for the occasion, they have a ton of new items, which

are among “this season’s most charming and inspiring products.”

You want a Medusa lamp? You got it. Love plates? No problem. Canaglia

nail clippers? Umm, neither do we.

Those are just the items for adults. Kids can choose from a golf mat,

decorated milk glasses and a voice changer, which is a “cool megaphone.”

Oh, and we just saw this in Chiasso’s press release. “The

Spring/Summer Wedding Season is upon us.”

We always cry at weddings.

(That answer: A bunch of cranky journalists, even if we do weep like

babies sometimes.)