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When big box stores (I’ll leave it to you to decide just WHICH big-box stores) come to town, they almost always shut down all the mom-and-pop stores in the area they open in. And it’s a pretty simple formula:

1) Move in.

2) Open doors with lower prices than anyone else.

3) Get employees on welfare and Medicaid because you don’t want to pay well or provide medical insurance.

4) Force smaller shops out of business.

5) Raise prices, because now you’re the only game in town.

6) Rinse, repeat 15 miles down the road.

I’ve heard some say, “capitalism works this way, and great for the owners of [INSERT_BIG_BOX_STORE_HERE] that they’re able to do so well because at least they create jobs.”

To them I say, “At what price?

 

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Florida woman goes on rampage after storeowner won’t exchange dollar bills for her jar of coins

 

This past Monday, a woman became furious with a storeowner when he declined to exchange dollar bills for her jar of coins. Surveillance video shows the woman aggressively pointing at the owner of the A Plus Food Mart in Mt. Dora, Florida before knocking items off the counter. As News 13 reports, the outburst only got worse from there.

 

 

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The woman is seen here knocking items off the store counter. (News 13)

The owner, who was not named, says that he tried explaining to the woman, also unnamed, that he didn’t have time to sort through her jar of change. She got frustrated and knocked items off his counter. He followed her outside his business and says the angry woman was screaming racial slurs and threatening to kill him. But that isn’t the worst thing that she did

 

 

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This is the moment when the woman allegedly hit the seven-year-old child. (News 13)

Danya Bennett was sitting outside the A Plus Food Mart at the time with her daughter, seven-year-old Kami. Kami told News 13, “We was just sitting here minding our own business and he told us to call the police,” and, “Her crazy.” Ms. Bennett told the station, “[The storeowner’s] saying she tore up my store, call 911, something’s wrong with her.” When the woman took a swinging punch at the owner, she missed and hit someone else. Little Kami says, “When she was trying to swing at him she hit me.” That’s right, the woman allegedly hit a seven-year-old.

News 13 writes that Kami has a bruise on her face and that she said she’s suffering from nightmares. Her mother told the station, “I’d like to see justice served, it’s aggravated assault and I’d like to see her behind bars.” Mt. Dora Police say they are reviewing the case and that the investigation remains open

 

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Tesco apologises after student finds dead maggot in bag of nuts

Marice Barnes claims she made the gruesome find just hours after buying the own-brand pistachios from her local store in Sale

Marice Barnes found a maggot and half eaten pistachio in a bag of Tesco Nuts

A mum found a dead maggot in a bag of nuts she bought from Tesco.

Marice Barnes, 20, claims she made the gruesome find just hours after buying the own-brand pistachios from her local store in Sale .

Relaxing on the sofa when she returned home, Marice opened the bag and found the maggot.

To make matters worse, it appeared the maggot had munched its way through half the nut before dying – hollowing out its own tiny tomb.

Marice, a student and mum-of-one, from Heywood Grove, Sale, said: “I was on the phone to my friend and I started eating them and then I thought ‘this one looks a bit funny’ and I pulled out a little thing and then realised it was a maggot.

“It had eaten half the nut and then died inside it.

“It turned my stomach, it was disgusting. I’ll never eat pistachios again, it wrecked my Easter.

“I don’t think I’ll be able to eat a chocolate egg now.”

 


Marice Barnes

 

When Marice called Tesco customer services, she was told to take the nuts – which had an expiry of September 9 – back to get her £1.99 refunded.

But she said: “I can’t believe that’s all they said. It’s disgusting.

“Imagine if I’d eaten it? What then?

“It makes me sick just thinking about it. They need to make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else.

“The way they reacted they just didn’t seem to care.”

A Tesco spokeswoman said: ‘We set ourselves very high standards for the safety and quality of our food. Our Customer Service Team have apologised to the customer and advised them to return the product to the store so we can investigate. We will keep them updated with our findings’.

 

Sourced from themanchestereveningnews.com

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