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They had really nice things. :(
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I like them too. :)
They don't plan to close any stores.

a message to our customers

Posted on Wednesday, April 17, 2013

As you may have heard or read today, our parent company Tesco updated on the future of Fresh & Easy. We appreciate all the support and love we’ve received from our loyal customers and even though our parent company plans to leave the US, we’re pleased to confirm there are no plans to close any portion of Fresh & Easy. While we don’t yet know who our new owner will ultimately be, Tesco announced it has already received interest from a number of parties including groups looking to purchase Fresh & Easy as an operating business....
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http://www.freshandeasy.com/news/post/2013/a-message-to-our-customers/
 
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May I say: If you believe the media reports, the Fresh & Easy experiment was a disaster/failure all around. But apparently not everyone hated the stores. They had a lot of fans and loyal shoppers, and one reason for that is Tesco's decision to locate some stores in under-served (poor, inner city, working class) neighborhoods where American companies have chosen not to open stores. Many residents of these neighborhoods were quite appreciative of this. I hope that whoever takes over these markets will keep those stores open for the sake of the residents who shopped there.
 
They are kind of an odd store, so I can understand them not catching on. To me they seem like part Trader Joe's, part small supermarket and part convience store all rolled into one. But, some of their produce has good prices, and they are the closest store (30 minutes away) I can get soy yogurt at, plus they have really good clearance stuff, so I like them.
 
im glad there has never been anything like that here. I think segregators would have found my family confusing, they would not have known where to put us. I know that South Africa used to have a Coloured area, if I was a South african living under apartheid I probably would have lived there.
 
All the ingredients of a genocide in the making. Never thought I'd see the phrase "Buddhist extremists" :/

The tension is nothing new, but the violence started with this:



Which ultimately lead to things like this:
(Warning, shows disturbing things like Buddhist monks beating people to death)
The BBC Article
 
America needs a solar panel on every roof....

The biggest news in solar power is the mainstreaming of distributed generation. Call it a suburban dream, version 2.0: a chicken in every backyard, an electric vehicle in every garage, and a solar panel on every roof. Americans wantmore solar power, and solar companies are now ubiquitous at home improvement shows. The wonks call it distributed generation, but friendlier names abound: rooftop solar, “locapower,” or “you own your own power.”

Solar industry news reads like the dawning of a very sunny day. One study shows that rooftop solar is already cheaper than grid power in over ten percent of the market in five states—California, Connecticut, Hawaii, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. That trend is projected to spread among 49 states—with hydropowered Washington the only exception—by 2022.
A separateCitigroup reportprojects that solar power module costs may fall to 25 cents per watt by 2020. (For comparison’s sake, the United States Department of Energy’s SunShot program aims to get the modules down to 50 cents per watt by 2020.)...
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http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/04/03/solar-every-roof-united-states
 
Hooah mounties!
Canada thwarts 'al Qaeda-supported' passenger train plot

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian police said on Monday they had arrested and charged two men with plotting to derail a Toronto-area passenger train in an operation they say was backed by al Qaeda elements in Iran.
"Had this plot been carried out, it would have resulted in innocent people being killed or seriously injured," Royal Canadian Mounted Police official James Malizia told reporters in Toronto.
The RCMP said it had arrested Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal, and Raed Jaser, 35, of Toronto in connection with the plot, which authorities said was not linked to the Boston Marathon bombings, which killed three and injured more than 200 people last week.
Neither is a Canadian citizen, but the police did not reveal their nationalities.
A spokeswoman for the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique near Montreal confirmed to Reuters that Esseghaier was a doctoral student at the research institute and that he had been arrested.
A bail hearing for the two will take place in Toronto on Tuesday morning.
Malizia said there was no indication that the planned attacks, which police described as the first known al Qaeda- backed plot on Canadian soil, were state-sponsored.
U.S. officials said the attack would have targeted a rail line between New York and Toronto, a route that travels along the Hudson Valley into New York wine country and enters Canada near Niagara Falls.
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This article is annoying the crap out of me. They are talking about Gwenyth Paltrows vegetarian lifestyle. She isnt even a vegetarian! But now all these people are calling her an arrogant vegan. So annoying. I remember they did that with Gillian Keith too! When will the world learn that a pesca-pollotarian (or a pescatarian) is not a vegetarian?


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...icaprio_n_3131286.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
 
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