Kim Jong-il's Last Trip to N.Korea's 1st Supermarket
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Kim Jong-il's Last Trip to N.Korea's 1st Supermarket North Korean leader Kim Jong-il made his last public appearance at the country's first supermarket in Pyongyang last Thursday. The North's official Korean Central News Agency illustrated the visit on Saturday with several photos while apparently trying to decide the appropriate time to announce his death. Kim's final so-called on-the-spot guidance tour was to the Kwangbok street shopping center, where he was accompanied by Jon Il-chun, a high school classmate and chief of a special department in the Workers Party codenamed Room 39 that manages Kim's private coffers. A South Korean security...
Published on Monday 30th of January 2012 04:02:33 AM
Supermarket prices soar in Manhattan and across the country
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What’s in your wallet? Not much — especially after a trip to the supermarket. At the checkout counter at the D’Agostino in Hell’s Kitchen, retired ballerina Carol Sumner shook her head over the increasingly steep price of her weekly grocery bill. “It’s outrageous,” said Sumner, a senior citizen who was making a pit stop to buy soda, ice cream and cake for a party she was throwing. “I feel like I am getting fleeced and taken advantage of. I don’t buy meat anymore. I can’t. It’s too expensive.” The price index for groceries is expected to surge 3 to 4...
Published on Monday 30th of January 2012 04:02:33 AM
Been to the supermarket lately?
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. . . . . Last night I sent out an email to all on my list about the rising price of food in our supermarkets. It included a post by Director Blue. This morning, as I was hearing Glenn Beck -- in a lead in to a commercial spot for a food storage company -- give out some facts and figures about how much food prices have risen, I was reading the responses to my email. (I've included them at the end of this post). Friends, I went shopping for groceries last Friday -- green peppers were $1.24 each...
Published on Monday 30th of January 2012 04:02:33 AM
Supermarket Inc: Inside a $500 Billion Money Machine (TV special)
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The typical modern American supermarket stocks 48,000 items, each battling for precious shelf space. How do they get there? Why are they arranged the way they are? Did you know that some stores use heat maps to track which aisles you walk down — and which ones you don't? Or that they put the milk at the end of the aisle so you're forced to pass a hundred other items on your way to get it? It's all done to gain an edge in a cutthroat business built on razor-thin margins. CNBC’s Tyler Mathisen goes behind the scenes for a...
Published on Monday 30th of January 2012 04:02:33 AM
Various Expensive Toys from the Supermarket
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Jimmy Jet from Deluxe Reading Toy Commercial This toy from Deluxe Reading is one of the most highly sought-after toys from the baby boomer generation. Jimmy Jet was to die for in the mid 1960s, and today worth several hundred dollars in any condition.
Published on Monday 30th of January 2012 04:02:33 AM
Winn-Dixie to close 30 stores; 120 corporate jobs being eliminated (MMM...MMM...MMM)
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Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. on Tuesday announced it will close 30 of its 514 stores, and cut 120 jobs in its corporate and field support staffs as it deals with a continued weak economy. The Jacksonville-based supermarket chain wouldn't say which stores are closing until company officials can inform the employees involved, which should happen by the end of Wednesday. The stores being closed "can't operate efficiently or profitably" in this economy, CEO Peter Lynch said. "We just don't see a lot of good things down the road," he said. "These steps are being taken to position the company for another...
Published on Monday 30th of January 2012 04:02:33 AM
Randall's employee fired for chasing theft suspect (Policy is for safety, spokeswoman says)
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WILLIAMSON COUNTY Randalls employee fired for chasing theft suspect Policy is for safety, spokeswoman says. By Miguel Liscano AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Tuesday, July 28, 2009 It cost him his job at a Round Rock Randalls, but Troy Schafer, who was fired last week after chasing a purse snatcher out of the grocery store, said he didn't have much choice. It was about 2 p.m. July 21, and Schafer had just walked in from finishing a sandwich and chips in front of the store when he heard 52-year-old Ann Welch screaming for help. Welch had been standing at the deli counter with...
Published on Monday 30th of January 2012 04:02:33 AM
Putin criticizes prices at Moscow supermarket (Obama Taking Notes)
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Putin criticizes prices at Moscow supermarket MOSCOW (AP) -- For the second time this month, Vladimir Putin has stood up for the common man, at a carefully staged media event.
Published on Monday 30th of January 2012 04:02:33 AM
Pro-Palestinian Supporters Enter French Supermarket And Remove Israeli Goods From Shelves
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On the 7th March a group of Pro-Palestinian supporters wearing 'Boycott Israel' T-Shirts entered a French supermarket and started to remove all goods supplied by Israel. Where were the police?
Published on Monday 30th of January 2012 04:02:33 AM
Italy: Plot to blow up Milan Cathedral
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Two Moroccans arrested in Italy yesterday wanted to blow up the Milan Cathedral on Christmas. They hoped an attack during the busy holiday would cost dozens of lives. This according to tapped phone calls, reports La Repubblica. The two belonged to an Islamic terror cell which had been followed by the Italian police already for months... Rachid Ilhami (31) and Abdelkader Ghafir (43) were arrested in Giussano, a city 25km away from Milan. The detectives gathered from tapped phone calls and confiscated computer files that the two also prepared attacks on a supermarket and a police bureau. They are arrested...
Published on Monday 30th of January 2012 04:02:33 AM
Terror Suspects `Targeting Italy`
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(ANSA) - Milan, December 2 - Two Moroccans arrested on Tuesday were planning terrorist attacks on targets in northern Italy after failing to make the ``necessary contacts`` to be sent abroad as jihad fighters, police said. Rachid Ilhami, 31, and Gafir Abdelkader, 42, are alleged to have been planning attacks on an immigration office and a police barracks in Milan as well as police stations, a supermarket and a night club carpark in smaller towns in the Lombardy region. Milan anti-terrorist unit chief Bruno Megale stressed that the pair were not ``an organic part of any organisation`` despite wiretapped conversations...
Published on Monday 30th of January 2012 04:02:33 AM
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