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The World's Game, on Our Home Turf Over the past few weeks, Kansas City has found itself in a rare position: not just watching the World Cup from afar but participating in it as one of the handful of American cities selected to host. These past few weeks for me have served as a powerful indicator that the Heartland isn't relegated to the sidelines... we are, in fact, a major player in the game. For a region too often written off as "flyover country," getting this much primeti

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by Jessie Sanders, RDI, NCIDQ heartland@retaildesigninstitute.org The RDI Heartland Group stands outside the entrance to Atlas9 with guest presenter Randall Statler, Executive Creative Director at Dimensional Innovations. Photo Credit: Maximus Coric Walking into Atlas 9 last week felt a little like stepping back into my own childhood—if my childhood had included a few more interdimensional anomalies. One of my very first jobs was working concessions at the local dollar movie