Outsourcing Means Jobs for Developmentally Disabled Adults in Albany, N.Y.

Byline: Kevin Harlin

Nov. 21--When Albany music retailer Trans World Entertainment Corp. bought the West Coast chain Wherehouse Entertainment Inc. in September, it had a small problem.

Trans World, which operates such chains as FYE, Strawberries and Coconuts Music & Movies, already had thousands of gift cards printed up with its existing stores' names on them. It didn't want to have to reprint the entire run to add the Wherehouse logo.

So in came Pine Ridge Industries, which is manually putting stickers with Trans World's latest retailing outlet on each of the cards to get them to the music retailer in time for the holidays.

Increasingly, …