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Mike Cianciarulo, president and chief executive of Earth Fare, a six-store natural-supermarket chain with headquarters in Asheville, N.C., also knows firsthand what can happen when retirees have no game plan. Many seniors seek part-time employment at Earth Fare not because of the discounts on meals and purchases but because they're bored. "For the most part, when they stay home, they sit there waiting for an illness," says Cianciarulo...
...response to strikes for pay increases and job security. Protesters say the strikes will continue until their demands are met. MEANWHILE IN ITALY ... Fast Food Insults McDonald's sued influential food critic Edoardo Raspelli for saying that its fries tasted like cardboard and its burgers like rubber. The food chain said his comments were "clearly offensive and defamatory." Raspelli, who writes a regular column for La Stampa, refused to back down from his statements and said the food giant was seeking €21 million - the amount it spent on advertising in Italy last year. last year...
...really fueled the fat-cat fuss in Britain. Just as in the U.S., where revelations of corporate piggery last year triggered a populist backlash, Britain's shareholders are asking why they should subsidize the opposite of success. Says Tory M.P. Archie Norman, former chairman of the ASDA supermarket chain, "When time after time, directors walk off with wheelbarrowloads of cash after presiding over declining share prices while shareholders get nothing and employees are made redundant, there is the perception of one rule for the privileged few - who get paid a lot anyway - and another for everyone else." Although boardroom...
...famous names. Her father Nigel was a journalist before becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher. After graduating from Oxford, Nigella followed her father into journalism at the Sunday Times of London. Soon she veered into her mother's territory (Vanessa Lawson was an heiress to a chain of tea shops) and started writing about food...
...drawing crowds of the curious, suburbanites and thrill-seeking kids. When it opened on a holiday weekend earlier this month, 250,000 visited in just three days. Inside the mall Spanish pop tunes blared from loudspeakers as families pushed strollers along marble floors, past shop windows for large Spanish chain stores like Zara and El Corte Inglés, and over half a dozen international brands such as Nike, H&M and Benetton. As in any mall, teenagers stood in atriums under giant skylights, smoked cigarettes and checked each other out. The McDonald's was packed, as were four tapas...