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Getting blacklisted isn't hard. At Wal-Mart, which once had a lax return policy, just three round trips in 45 days without receipts triggers an alert. If you get flagged, you'll need a manager's approval to complete your purchase; then it will be six months before you can return an item as usual. Barnes & Noble and Home Depot have their own proprietary tagging systems...
...city of 10 million people. Taps ran dry in Harbin on Tuesday with virtually no advance warning and no indication of how long the shutoff will persist. Panicked residents responded to conflicting government statements with a furious buying spree during which all potable liquid at the city's flagship Wal-Mart sold out in hours. By Tuesday afternoon, homes, hospitals and schools had no running water, and few options...
Very little is still standing or open in and around Pass Christian--once a vibrant, diverse Gulf Coast community of 7,000 or so, where golf balls and oysters now dot debris fields filled with waterlogged furniture, bathroom fixtures and broken china--not the Catholic church, not the local Wal-Mart, not the gas stations. But what is up and running--and what has given the Betz family enough hope to go back and rebuild their lives--is Coast Episcopal School in nearby Long Beach, which both of Betz's children attend and where she is a teacher...
...really have to explain to Paris what Wal-Mart...
Statistics from the American Booksellers Association bolster his--and Ross's --argument that there is still room for small independents among Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon and even Wal-Mart and Costco. The group's membership is down from 4,700 a decade ago but has remained stable at 2,000 for the past three years. And while book sales overall have remained static for the past two years, Ipsos BookTrends reports slight growth for independent bookstores--just over 2% since...