When you tire of shopping, grab a massage chair where customers are stretched and pulled into angular lumps of dough.

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While waiting for their vitamins, customers at this GNC store can relax in a massage chair, read magazines, concoct their own aromatherapy lotions or mix up personalized potpourri packages.

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Karen Armstrong, a massage therapist and chair of the Michigan Board of Massage Therapy, acknowledges that some ill-trained therapists will get licensed because of the grandfather clause.

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Emirates Airlines offers first-class passengers a private suite, a seat in a pod-like, private space and a chair with massage capability.

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