48 Pages of Sears Black Friday Ads Leaked

Sears Gives Black Friday Shoppers 48 Pages of Something to Talk AboutSan Jose, CA, October 27th, 2009 -- Now that the buzz about last week's false Office Max ad has finally quieted down, shoppers already have something new to talk about.  Today, a 48 page Black Friday...

36 Cyclists to Pedal 6,800 km across Canada!

One of the world's longest charitable cycling events on behalf of childhood cancer is taking place this summer from June 13 to June 24, 2008. Gordon Drummond, 49 of Peace River, Alberta, is one of the 36 National...

Sears to start selling suits made from recycled bottles

Sears will start selling business suits made out of recycled plastic bottles in Spring 2009. It's called EcoGir and it's designed for the fashionable male. They're constructed out of recycled plastic bottle chips...

A loss of a star, LG begins payment for incorrect energy rating

LG Electronics USA: French Door Refrigerator losing Energy Star   LG Electronics has made an agreement with the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency on the matter of Energy Star rating for its French door bottom mount freezer model...

Black Friday 2008 Sales Roundup

Sale ads and coupons for Black Friday 2008 are popping up as major retailers in the US, such as Target, Sears, Macy's and Walmart, are hosting massive doorbuster sales with some slick deals.  Held on the...

Weekly Radio Spin: Unprotected Whistleblowing

This week, we look at the demise of whistleblower protections, Lipitor's new pitch man, and how to look like you're military without actually enlisting. In "Six Degrees of Spin and Fakin'," we look at the Ogilvy...

Spotlight on Vermont: Brooke Bennett & Jessica's Law

UPDATE:  7/08/08 2:53 am EST Public outrage over the death of Brooke Bennett has the residents of Vermont circulating petitions to get Jessica's Law on individual town's November ballots. Other than...

The plane that ended up perched on a villa roof after engine failure

"This was the damage after a light aircraft came down in France today.The small plane crashed into a village in Vezenobres, a small town with a population of 1,400 near the Southern coast of France, this...

Plastics with bisphenol A shelved

Health Canada has yet to make an official announcement about the purportedly dangerous bisphenol A, but many stores aren't taking any chances. Many believe the official announcement will come Friday during a...

Using Google to Plan Your Next Terrorist Attack

Opinion."When I was on Drudge earlier today I saw this story about how Google’s Street View had gotten really up close and personal with a family’s house. According to The Smoking Gun one family has already sued Google because the Street View thing offered too much detail...

Juan Pablo Montoya takes a breather

Juan Pablo Montoya " JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) -As the rain poured down on Bristol Motor Speedway, a restless Juan Pablo Montoya searched the Internet for something to do. He was out of new movies and wasn't...

Was John Walsh's son killed by Jeffrey Dahmer?

The famous case gets is injected with a new sense of possibility, but John Walsh remains a skeptic."John Walsh, who embarked on a TV crime-fighting crusade after his son Adam was abducted and killed more than 25 years ago at a Hollywood Sears store, says he is not swayed by a...

Lost jet: Deep sea probe under way

"MAKASSAR, Indonesia (Reuters) -- A U.S. navy ship joined the search on Tuesday for an Indonesian airliner that went missing eight days ago with 102 people aboard, with the hunt focusing on a large metal object far down on the sea floor. The object was discovered on Monday by...

Market for Sears-style Merchandise is Shrinking

Hat tip to Paul Kedrosky:There is a useful new McKinsey study out on the disappearance of the middle market. Providers of good enough, Sears-style stuff are increasingly being squeezed between discounters and...

Car Crashes Into Sears Store (KSAT ClickOnSA.com via Yahoo! News)

An 84-year-old woman suffered minor injuries Wednesday when she crashed her car into the side of a Sears store on the North Side.

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