Taking The Clunk Out Of Retail  Retailers have started looking
closely at curated shopping experiences.  AHAlife, a small
startup in downtown New York City, is one of the new "collective
curating" shopping experiences that disrupts the traditional
retail buying and selling cycle and solves the problem faced by
most retailers -- that buyers all end up going to the same trade
shows, competing with each other, and placing things in stores
so far in advance that it's hard to know what will sell and what
won't.  And it's also turning around the idea that buyers and
big retailers like Saks, Macy's and even the TJ Maxx's can
determine what consumers want for them.  Shauna Mei, CEO and co-
founder of AHAlife.com, learned when she was very young that the
act of collecting objects while traveling created a spiritual
connection between herself, the people she encountered and the
place through which she passed.  MeiBuying something she
treasured and keeping it for that value meant her purchases were
more about discovering