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...Three weeks ago, a woman in Maine discovered a black widow crawling in her grapes. Since then, at least eight more of the poisonous arachnids have turned up in Southern California grapes shipped to New England, and both the Stop & Shop and Shop 'n Save supermarket chains have pulled the affected fruit off the shelves...
About half of all consumers say they depend on labels to determine which food to buy. "I see so many women reading labels now, they run the risk of having their pocketbooks stolen," says Jane Bohanan, an Atlanta homemaker. Yet a casual stroll down the aisles of a supermarket reveals just how often Bohanan and other shoppers are being shamelessly deceived...
...Foliplexx, a treatment for baldness. At least six more infomercials are currently under investigation. "People are mesmerized by TV," says Barry Cutler, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. "They wouldn't give this stuff a second thought if they saw it on the back of some supermarket magazine. But they believe it because it's on television...
...gloom in Kuwait these days. Beneath the funereal skies lies a country that is recovering its spirit. Electricity and water plants are working again, and the phones are beginning to function too. In the capital the giant two-floor Sultana Supermarket is once more a cornucopia of fresh vegetables and delicacies from around the world...
...Globe is a supermarket scandal sheet published in Boca Raton, Fla. Its editor is Wendy Henry, who was fired by a London newspaper for running photographs of young Prince William urinating in a park. Since the tabloid's pages are mainly devoted to lurid tales of purported affairs and the diets of various celebrities, its stories are rarely picked up by the mainstream media. But on the day after the Globe printed the victim's name and high school yearbook photo, NBC Nightly News broadcast a report on the disclosure...