James Asanuma from Los Angeles has filed a lawsuit against KFC for their free chicken giveaway deal that they launched back in May. He said the whole free giveaway was nothing but a scam to get chicken customers to spend more money."The lawsuit, filed today in L.A. County...
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JetBlue Airways are being recession-savvy and using economic downturn as their latest marketing trick. The airline is promising to refund airfare for customers who are unfortunate enough to lose their jobs after...
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A woman who works at a petrol station in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland rammed her customers car into the front of the petrol station as she helped the disabled person.She didn't notice the car was an automatic...
1 million Homes without ElectricityA powerful snow and ice storm knocked out power to nearly 1 million homes and businesses across New York and New England on Friday, closing roads and forcing the state of Maine to...
This is one of the side effects ofmodern city living. A smallfailure in a line or in a transformer can affectthousands of people. " Crews gradually restored electrical service across parts of Oahu on...
Some of the customers injured in Friday's horrific stampede at a Walmart on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the US when stores open early and offer big deals for people who come at dawn, are planning...
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"Banks and building societies are coming under increasing pressure from MPs to pass on the latest cut in interest rates to their mortgage customers. Some of the major lenders made an immediate decision to pass on...
As the credit crunch hits the bottom line of many stores, eateries and other businesses, everyone starts looking for ways to save money.Say in these uncertain times a place where you are a good customer decided to reward you on your birthday with a cookie or a cheap pair of...
"Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) today announced the development and release of its e-BRIDGE Open Platform Connectors for Microsoft(R) (MS) Exchange and Microsoft Office...
" today announced the opening of its new Asia Flow Technology Center in Nanjing, China, strengthening the company's presence in Asia Pacific and enhancing Emerson Process Management's ...
The astonishing rise of gas and electricity prices in Britain have been a worrying trend to many British consumers. Those consumers may be distressed today to learn that gas prices in the UK have risen at twice the EU average. This may frustrate them considering that the UK...
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In Food outshines service at Cetrella (SF Chronicle, October 15), Michael Bauer asks "What is it about empty restaurants that cultivates poor service? It seems like every time I go into a dining room with a sea of open tables, service is erratic". I think there are more...
With France now officially in a recession ad the global markets reeling, this revelation from a French bank that it lost 600 million euros in a derivatives trading incident last week couldn't have come at a worse...
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" Hard pressed to find good helping hands these days? Not bothered that these helping hands may not be human? Then you may want to try hiring the same workers as used by the owners of the Japanese tavern...
"In addition to helping rescue Hypo Real Estate from possible collapse, the German government has sought to reassure its citizens by announcing that it will guarantee all bank savings. Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück told reporters in Berlin that this meant that bank...