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  • Explosives Found, Defused in Paris Department Store

    12/16/2008 5:40:56 AM PST · by nuconvert · 17 replies · 916+ views
    FoxNews ^ | Dec. 16, 2008
    PARIS — French police neutralized five sticks of explosives discovered in the restrooms of a prestigious department store in Paris on Tuesday following a warning from a group demanding the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan. Agence France-Presse said it received a letter from a group calling itself the Afghan Revolutionary Front saying that "several bombs" had been planted in the Printemps store. AFP reported that the letter called for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghanistan by February next year. The bombs were supposed to go off on Wednesday, the group said.
  • Dynamite Found At Store In Paris

    12/16/2008 10:04:33 PM PST · by CE2949BB · 7 replies · 415+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 12/17/2008 | Edward Cody
    PARIS, Dec. 16 -- Police found five sticks of dynamite in a landmark Paris department store Tuesday after an unknown group warned that bombs were hidden there and threatened more attacks unless France withdraws its military forces from Afghanistan.
  • Store Owner Shoots Suspected Robbers

    12/10/2008 5:36:58 PM PST · by marktwain · 25 replies · 760+ views
    WSOCTV ^ | 6 December, 2008 | NA
    CATAWBA COUNTY, N.C. -- The Catawba County Sheriff’s Office said a business owner shot and killed a suspected robber, and hurt another one. Deputies said it happened at 3:15 a.m. Saturday. Randy Willis, owner of Willis Packaging on Highway 10, went to his store because the alarm was going off. When Willis got there, deputies said he saw a man coming out of his store with a shotgun. Willis and the robber struggled, and deputies said Willis pulled out a pistol and shot the robber, killing him. Deputies said another robber, 52-year-old Arnold Ray Jr., had broken into the store....
  • Downturn tough for Portland mom-and-pops (housing bubble gone = worthless stores bankrupt)

    06/13/2008 7:53:39 PM PDT · by 2banana · 18 replies · 305+ views
    The Oregonian ^ | June 12, 2008 | Erin Barnett
    Stacey Korn arrives just before 10 a.m. to unlock her shop on Northwest 23rd Avenue. She hoists orange molded plastic benches from the back and places them outside under the windows. Then she sets up her sidewalk sign: "Shop 'Hello' -- nifty gifts for the whole family," it says. "Patronizing us is like flirting with a wealthy widow. You can't overdo it." Korn needs her sense of humor now more than ever. As the economy slumps, sales at her Hello Portland store at 525 N.W. 23rd Ave. are half what they were soon after opening in late 2005. Her family...
  • Gunman Kills Five Women In Chicago Store

    02/02/2008 7:46:53 PM PST · by blam · 175 replies · 246+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-3-2008 | Tim Shipman
    Gunman kills five women in Chicago store By Tim Shipman in Chicago Last Updated: 2:36am GMT 03/02/2008 Five people were shot dead at a women's clothing store in a Chicago suburb on Saturday. Police evacuated the mall and sealed off the car park after at least five shots were fired The victims, all women, were killed inside the Lane Bryant store at Brookside Marketplace shopping centre at Tinley Park, south of Chicago. Police evacuated the mall and sealed off the car park after at least five shots were fired shortly before noon. It is thought that the shooting occurred after...
  • CompUSA is sold

    12/08/2007 9:04:25 PM PST · by Westlander · 56 replies · 198+ views
    Consumer electronics retailer CompUSA says it will close its stores after the holidays. CompUSA closed more than half its stores this spring.
  • Video Shows Rattlesnake Bite Reptile Company Employee

    09/27/2007 8:36:38 AM PDT · by stainlessbanner · 13 replies · 232+ views
    wftv ^ | September 27, 2007
    HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- A pet store employee was recovering, Thursday morning, from a rattlesnake bite. Store surveillance video showed the man cleaning a western diamondback rattlesnake's cage Wednesday in Hollywood. But, when he tried to move the snake to another cage, it lashed out and bit his hand. The Florida snake handler was rushed to a Miami-Dade hospital that specializes in snake antivenin. Experts said the rattlesnake bite probably wasn't a feeding response, otherwise the attack caught on tape could have been much worse. The Strictly Reptiles Company breeds snakes and other reptiles. Employee Tony Cruz was cleaning the cage...
  • Store removes Halloween prop after complaint

    09/25/2007 5:46:20 AM PDT · by TornadoAlley3 · 23 replies · 242+ views
    thnt.com ^ | 09/25/07 | PAMELA SROKA-HOLZMANN
    Teacher declares doll hanging from noose in Watchung is racist: WATCHUNG — The owner of a Halloween costume store here said a window display depicting a man hanging from a noose will be removed after a Scotch Plains woman complained, saying it was appalling and racist. Delores Jackson, a fifth-grade teacher at the Charles H. Skillman Elementary School in Plainfield, said the display she saw Sunday in the window at the Halloween Scene store in the Blue Star Shopping Center on Route 22 West depicted a stuffed doll resembling a black man, wearing a labor suit and hanging from a...
  • Is 'Quick' Enough? (Store Clinics Tap a Public Need, but Many Doctors Call the Care Inferior)

    01/16/2007 1:35:06 PM PST · by shrinkermd · 36 replies · 954+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 16 January 2007 | Ranit Mishori
    Some of the newest players in health care are rubbing doctors the wrong way. You may know them: those small clinics at your neighborhood Wal-Mart, Target or CVS that promise quick attention for routine visits -- sore throats, minor aches and pains, flu shots -- with no appointments needed. The clinics, which go by such names as MinuteClinic, RediClinic, QuickClinic, Medpoint Express, Curaquick and MediMin, offer convenience and low price -- scarce commodities in today's medical marketplace. But while consumers are taking to the concept, physician resistance is building. ...Not that many are convinced this trend is good for patients....
  • Slow times at the video store

    11/27/2006 9:53:08 AM PST · by raccoonradio · 14 replies · 518+ views
    Boston Globe ^ | 11/26/06 | Taryn Plumb
    Left behind by Netflix, DVDs, and on-demand cable service, outlets are dying off; popcorn, tanning salons keep some alive If it were an old Western movie, this would be the faded boomtown. It's silent save for the buzz of fluorescent lighting and the familiar "swish-clunk" of DVDs slipping through an outside drop-box. A smattering of customers -- one, maybe two at a time -- stroll in, getting lost in tall stacks filled with dusty gems such as "Divine Trash" and "Cactus Flower." One elderly gentleman passes through a door in the back to a beyond not suitable for children. At...
  • NY: Archaeologists find 18th-century store (Ft. Edward, Hudson River, 1800s-era 'Stop'n'$hop')

    10/08/2006 7:55:16 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 22 replies · 1,948+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 10/8/06 | Chris Carola - ap
    FORT EDWARD, N.Y. - This history-rich Hudson River community has yielded a museum's worth of 18th-century military artifacts over the decades, from musket balls to human skeletons. But a colonial soldier's daily lot wasn't all fighting and bloodshed. They had their share of down time, and that's where the sutler came in, offering for sale two of the few diversions from frontier duty: alcohol and tobacco. A five-year-long archaeological project has unearthed the 250-year-old site of a merchant's establishment that sold wine, rum, tobacco and other goods to the thousands of soldiers who passed through this region during the French...
  • Wal-Mart Arsons

    06/10/2006 10:26:16 AM PDT · by Babu · 21 replies · 679+ views
    (06.09.06) — Fires were intentionally set inside two Wal-Mart stores late Thursday, Glendale fire investigators said Friday. Both stores were evacuated after the flames broke out, and six people were treated for smoke inhalation, with two taken to local hospitals. Fire officials said damages were estimated at $5 million, mostly from smoke and water damage. One of the stores was to remain closed until Monday. The first fire started about 10 p.m. in the rear of a Wal-Mart in Glendale and forced about 120 people to evacuate, Deputy Fire Chief Elio Pompa said. A second fire broke out about an...
  • NEW HUSBAND STORE

    06/08/2006 9:00:49 PM PDT · by freepatriot32 · 22 replies · 765+ views
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    A store that sells new husbands has just opened in New York City,where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates. You may visit the store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the attributes of the men increase as the shopper ascends the flights. There is, however, a catch: you may choose any man from a particular floor, or you may choose to go up a floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building! So, a woman goes to the Husband...
  • Japan:Man busted for threatening to kill retail shop worker over store's music

    06/05/2006 2:35:25 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 9 replies · 921+ views
    Man busted for threatening to kill retail shop worker over store's music KAWAGOE, Saitama -- A man has been arrested for threatening to kill an employee of a retail shop here unless it changed the background music it played at the store, police said. Tetsuya Hoshino, 34, a resident of the Saitama Prefecture city of Hidaka, denied he had intended to kill anyone. "I wasn't serious about it," he was quoted as telling investigators. Hoshino put a letter in the store's suggestion box on May 14 threatening to kill an employee unless it changed the background music the store played,...
  • <b>USA Citizens Day - July 1st Rally to Stop Illegal Immigration</b>

    05/24/2006 2:27:38 PM PDT · by Angelina211 · 5 replies · 845+ views
    CitizenDay.net ^ | 5/23/2006 | CitizenDay
    USA Citizens Day - July 1st Immigration Control Rally Nationwide Rally on Saturday, July 1st, at noon, at your City HallMay 1st - Million of Illegal Aliens Marched in our StreetsTwelve million illegal aliens demonstrated their political power, and declared May 1st to be A Day Without Undocumented Workers ( illegal aliens ). They boycotted the USA, all US businesses and institutions. Millions of them marched in our streets, carried Mexican flags, shouted "Si se puede!", and demanded new laws from our Congress. July 1st - U.S. Citizens Nationwide Rally for Immigration ControlRally to stop our continuous invasion by...
  • Maine storekeepers say customers fuming about high cigarette tax

    09/20/2005 4:25:26 PM PDT · by Past Your Eyes · 61 replies · 1,217+ views
    New Hampshire Union Leader ^ | September 19, 2005 | Glenn Adams
    Maine storekeepers say customers fuming about high cigarette tax By GLENN ADAMS Associated Press Writer HALLOWELL, Maine (AP) -- Taking time out to tend to customers who drift into his tobacco shop on a sunny Monday morning, owner Tom Allen showed little worry about the doubling of Maine's cigarette tax to $2 that just took effect. "There's no impact on me whatsoever. If anything, it will help because people will stop buying packs and make their own," said Allen, whose Kennebec Tobacco Co. sells bags of loose rolling tobacco as a sideline to its main products, cigars and pipe products....
  • The Wal-Mart You Don't Know

    09/04/2005 6:32:48 PM PDT · by vannrox · 10 replies · 495+ views
    Fast Company ^ | 12-2003 FR Post 9-4-2005 | Charles Fishman
    A gallon-sized jar of whole pickles is something to behold. The jar is the size of a small aquarium. The fat green pickles, floating in swampy juice, look reptilian, their shapes exaggerated by the glass. It weighs 12 pounds, too big to carry with one hand. The gallon jar of pickles is a display of abundance and excess; it is entrancing, and also vaguely unsettling. This is the product that Wal-Mart fell in love with: Vlasic's gallon jar of pickles.Wal-Mart priced it at $2.97--a year's supply of pickles for less than $3! "They were using it as a 'statement' item,"...
  • Methamphetamines: Immigrant Store Clerks Becoming Collateral Damage in War on Meth

    08/13/2005 3:39:11 PM PDT · by freepatriot32 · 65 replies · 1,704+ views
    Spurred by new laws restricting the sales of cold remedies such as Sudafed, which contain pseudoephedrine, a necessary component of popular meth-cooking recipes, police and prosecutors across the country have been arresting convenience store clerks -- sometimes on charges that carry substantial prison sentences. In one Georgia case, authorities made mass arrests of immigrant store clerks and owners, but it's starting to look less like a criminal conspiracy and more like culturally naive foreign-born merchants simply trying to sell their merchandise. It's all a big waste of money, says the Drug Policy Alliance, which issued a press release this week...
  • Pet store owner: Satan's image on turtle's shell

    03/23/2005 7:17:46 AM PST · by bedolido · 58 replies · 1,652+ views
    CNN News ^ | 03/21/2005 | staff writer
    MICHIGANTOWN, Indiana (AP) -- An Indiana pet store owner says he sees the image of Satan on the shell of a turtle that was the only survivor of a store fire in October. The palm-sized red-eared slider turtle, named Lucky, was the only animal to survive the fire at Dora's A-Dora-ble Pet Shop in nearby Frankfort, about 40 miles northwest of Indianapolis. Owner Bryan Dora now says he sees Satan's face on the critter's shell. He can spot lips, eyes, a goatee, shoulders and a pair of pointy horns on Lucky's back.
  • Robbery suspect caught after leaving wallet in store

    02/10/2005 8:02:07 AM PST · by holymoly · 6 replies · 420+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | Feb. 10, 2005 | AP
    EULESS - A robbery suspect was caught after leaving his wallet on the store counter -- and then going to the police station to pick it up. ADVERTISEMENT Joseph Fahnbulleh, 22, of Arlington, remained in the Euless City Jail with bail set at $30,000. He faces a robbery charge. A few days after the robbery, he walked into the Euless police station to pick up his wallet after a detective called to tell him someone had found it. "Once we had the wallet, we called him to say it had been turned in to our lost and found," Euless police...