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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: There's No Going Back | 12/4/2005 | See Source »

...discounting is bringing shoppers out in force--literally. When a Wal-Mart in Cedar Hill, Texas, opened at 5 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday, Brittany Price, 19, was nearly trampled as she angled for a $68 DVD player. "I had to climb a display and hang on," she says. "It was funny watching people get so worked up over spending money. How often do you see that?" More and more often, it turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mind Of A Shopper | 12/4/2005 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Explosion Leaves Millions Without Water | 11/22/2005 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Displaced: Which Way Is Home? | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...really have to explain to Paris what Wal-Mart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Questions for Nicole Richie | 11/12/2005 | See Source »

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