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...contributed over $750,000 to the “Yes on 1: Grocery Stores and Consumers for Fair Competition” Committee, according to the company’s filings with the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance. The committee’s biggest donor is Stop & Shop, which has contributed $2.17 million, according to public filings...
...such liberal lawmakers as Michigan's John Conyers and New York's Charles Schumer, was working as an assistant U.S. Attorney when two Democratic activists approached her with the idea of trying something like Judicial Watch from the left. For its first 18 months, CREW was a one-woman shop. An early target was the seemingly invincible DeLay. Sloan asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the House majority leader's fund raising and sued the Federal Election Commission to get more info about his dealings with a Kansas utility. But she was not getting much support from Democratic officials...
...fresh fruits and vegetables. More than 300 million people in China, probably 100 million in Mexico, Brazil and Indonesia, and millions more in the rest of Latin America and Asia are increasingly beginning to resemble their counterparts in the West in terms of what they eat and how they shop for groceries. There's more emphasis on convenience and packaged foods, and supermarkets are populating the retail arena in ever greater numbers...
...farmer has the bad luck to be stuck with marginal land, staying on it can often be a matter of choice, even a "lifestyle decision." Government handouts only "prolong the day of having to make a tough call," he says. "It's like if I set up a small shop on the outskirts of town and then Coles comes along. Would the government protect me?" Observers foresee a day of reckoning brought about by agricultural consolidation. Foreign investors, such as major hedge funds, are picking up prime farm land (and paying good prices), the banker says, because the returns from...
...Status also drives us to shop. It's what motivates us to buy televisions larger than our neighbors', Compeau says. And as America grows more populated, we'll only feel more pressure to spend, says Elizabeth Goldsmith, a Florida State University professor of consumer economics. "A lot of it is watching what other people buy. The more crammed in we are, the more we watch each other...