Free Republic

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...

Wal-Mart Drops Gun Sales in Some Stores Friday, April 14, 2006 CHICAGO — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) has decided to stop selling guns in about a third of its U.S. stores in what it calls a marketing decision based on lack of demand in some places, a company spokeswoman said Friday. The world's largest retailer decided last month to remove firearms from about 1,000 stores in favor of stocking other sporting goods, in line with a "Store of the Community" strategy for boosting sales by paying closer attention to local differences in demand. "This decision is based on diminished customer...

Businesses face wrath for supporting a cause By Jennifer Davies UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER December 20, 2005 Businesses want to make money, not waves. But today, that's no easy feat. Want to market your product to the gay community? That could raise the ire of conservative religious organizations. Want to back out? The gay community's clout will give you a different headache. Like it or not, the culture wars that have cleaved the country and created red states and blue states now have hit corporate America. Companies are being forced to choose sides in disputes they would rather avoid.

Largely ignored, Puritan laws like 'Common Day of Rest' revisited for the holidays... When Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly warned retailers that they would face prosecution if their doors opened on Thanksgiving, he was citing a nearly 400-year-old-law, penned by Puritans trying to enforce their idea of order on the dark shores of the New World. And as the year-end holiday approaches, authorities are watching for any supermarkets or department stores that try to do business on Christmas Day, citing the same timeworn legislation. This legal relic is part of legislation known as the blue laws: rarely enforced and largely...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Two men were arrested late Tuesday for their role in vandalizing a pair of stores for selling alcohol to blacks, Oakland police said. Deputy Police Chief Howard Jordan said that Donald Cunningham, 73, and Yusef Bey IV, 19, turned themselves in to face charges including robbery, felony vandalism, conspiracy and terrorist threats. Police have obtained warrants charging four other suspects with similar crimes and expect arrests soon. Bey, who has been linked to a black Muslim group that runs the Your Black Muslim Bakery store chain, was taken to North County Jail and was being held on...

UNDER THE COVERS, CONSERVATIVE-STYLE By Azi Paybarah Two new books for the kiddies are hitting stores—one that will help get them laid, and another to turn those one-night-stand spawn into good little conservatives. First up is the long-awaited The O'Reilly Factor for Kids. Those with strong visual imaginations will doubtless be pleased to learn that O'Reilly (as he frequently refers to himself) didn't get laid until he was twenty. But it's about the children, and O'Reilly gives spin-free lessons about teenage sex, drugs, and what kind of junior high school girls turns him on. The Long Island native spills the...

Southeast Michigan malls and department stores have survived the first wave of name changes and store closures announced Thursday by Federated Department Stores Inc.Cincinnati-based Federated (NYSE: FD) is acquiring St. Louis-based May Department Stores Co. and announced plans Thursday to convert 330 of May’s department stores into Macy’s. Federated also plans to sell or close 68 stores at malls where the combined company has two or more stores. After the acquisition, Federated plans to operate Marshall Field’s and Lord & Taylor stores at three malls in metro Detroit: Fairlane Town Center, Lakeside Mall and Twelve Oaks Mall. Federated also said...

Grocery options tied to obesity Study shows inner-city stores lack healthy foods By ERIC BERGER Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle The world is full of assumptions, such as money equals happiness. Some assumptions are true, some are not. In science, when a researcher decides to test an assumption, it becomes a hypothesis. The basis of all scientific experiment and observation is the testing of one or more hypotheses. This makes Galileo Galilei a real hero to scientists. For nearly two millennia after the height of classical Greece and the teachings of Aristotle, the basis of "science" was theory. Galileo — shockingly...

<p>Welcome to Wired News. Skip directly to: Search Box, Section Navigation, Content.</p> <p>A consortium of retailers and consumer goods companies plan to unveil the replacement for the bar code next week. The upgrade will use a controversial radio technology that critics say will significantly expand the powers of retailers to track the whereabouts of their goods and the people who buy them.</p>

The supermarket chain Tesco has admitted testing controversial technology that tracks customers buying certain products through its stores. Anyone picking up Gillette Mach3 razor blades at its Cambridge store will have his or her picture taken. The Guardian, alerted by Katherine Albrecht, director of US-based Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy and Invasion and Numbering, to the use of the smart electronic tags, has found that tags in the razor blades trigger a CCTV camera when a packet is removed from the shelf. A second camera takes a picture at the checkout and security staff then compare the two images, raising the...

Some Knoxville Stores Have Extra Green Christmas December 26, 2002 By AMY RUTLEDGE 6 News Anchor/Reporter KNOXVILLE (WATE) -- Analysts nationwide describe holiday sales this year as dismal, disappointing and the weakest in decades. But those analysts haven't been visiting any Knoxville malls. Despite the shorter shopping season and the recent windfall of negative sales outlooks, many Knoxville stores opened Thursday after enjoying the greenest Christmas in years. "Things have been great," says Norm Helterhoff, with Village Gifts. Norm's heard all the talk about how bad sales were expected to be this year. "I keep hearing that and I'm sure...

Just got info from wife who heard it at work from someone who talked to someone who knows. Wal-Mart is only putting crafts and Christmas items on sale today. Not much else on sale. Anyone have any other info on other stores like K-Mart, Target? Perhaps we can help each other target REAL sales when they happen. And, if sales WERE the lowest they've been in 30 years as the Washington Post story says...seems like the retailers would have big sales. However, from what I know (which is very little), they're not. Merry Christmas to all.

<p>WASHINGTON -- An antipiracy campaign by the recording industry is threatening lawsuits to try to force stores to pull pirated music from their shelves.</p> <p>The Recording Industry Association of America said Monday it is demanding a halt to illegal music sales at gas stations, convenience stores, groceries and some small music stores that the group has identified as offering illegal copies of music recordings.</p>