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Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” offered her advice for those struggling with the inflationary pressures on the American economy: be smart shoppers.

Shocking video shows a Walmart security worker knock a customer out stone-cold with just one, ruthless punch after the shopper apparently spat on him. A 14-second clip uploaded late Tuesday to Facebook shows the Walmart contractor and a customer engaged in a ferocious shoving match. The clash quickly escalated when the male shopper rammed the security staffer with his cart, hitting him once. The customer then appeared to lunge his head forward and spit on the worker, prompting him to knock the man out cold with one punch, the clip shows.

BRECKENRIDGE HILLS • A Tennessee woman grabbed two knives from the shelf at a Family Dollar store here Tuesday and began stabbing a customer in the head, fatally wounding the victim. Cameka Cathey, 34, of Memphis, was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the attack. She is accused of stabbing Marybeth Gaeng, 65, inside the Family Dollar Store at 9730 St. Charles Rock Road. Cathey entered the Family Dollar store and retrieved two knives from the shelf, according to court documents. She then approached Gaeng and stabbed her in the head. While employees were trying to help...

A shopper was left baffled after she went to Asda to stock up on picnic equipment and was asked for proof of age to buy a set of teaspoons. The shop assistant reportedly informed the customer that someone had once been murdered with a teaspoon, and therefore age identification was now required. That the woman had also bought plates and picnic ware at the Halifax branch in West Yorkshire did not appear to reassure the shop assistant as to her innocent intentions. The receipt for the bizarre sale was published on the website nannyknowsbest.blogspot.com, a website set up by an...

WEAPONS OF CHOICE Shopper pulls gun, stops robbery cold Held suspect at grocery store until police officers arrived A grocery store customer in Indianapolis is being credited with halting an armed robbery by pulling his own weapon and pointing it at the assailant until police arrived. According to a report in the Indianapolis Star, Charlie Merrell, 51, was in a checkout line at a grocery store called Bucks IGA on the city's south side when a "masked man jumped a nearby counter and held a gun on a store employee." The police report cited by the newspaper said the incident...

Subject: Don't take hubby shopping Dear Mrs. Fenton, It has come to our attention that over the past six months, your husband, Mr. Bill Fenton has been causing quite a commotion in our store. We have documented all incidents on our video surveillance equipment. We have identified and classified 15 objectionable types of conduct, to date, summarized below in the attched memo from our Internal Security Dept.Based on this continuing egregious pattern of conduct, harmful to our company's reputation, we regrettably must ask, no, we must insist that you please refrain in the future from bringing your husband along with...