Investigation Shows Dollar Store Cheating

by Barry Yeoman and Jocelyn C Zuckerman The Guardian    On a cloudy winter day, a state government inspector named Ryan Coffield walked into a Family Dollar store in Windsor, North Carolina, carrying a scanner gun and a laptop.    Inside the store, which sits along a three-lane road in a county of peanut growers …

ADA Enforcement Is Tough Sledding

by Kevin Burton    I let the 33rd anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act pass July 26 without writing anything about it. Why?    It was partly because I ran out of time, as I was preparing to travel to the Beep Baseball World Seies in Oklahoma.    But it was mostly because I …

Chip, Chip Hooray! It’s Potato Chip Day

by Kevin Burton    Today is National Potato Chip Day, but I didn’t study for the quiz.    My excuse, (there is always an excuse) Consumer Reports let me down.  In the past the magazine has published consumer preference stories about chips of all kinds.  But I found nothing on their website and by googling …

Quibbles And Bits: Shame On Starbucks?

by Kevin Burton    Got some things to say. Don’t want to make a federal, 700-word case of them, just want to have my say as they say in England.    Just some things I need to get off my chest.     I’ll call them Quibbles And Bits. I’ll serve them up on Page 7 …

Wordle Is A Thing, But I Better Not

by Kevin Burton    There’s a new game, it’s a craze actually, called Wordle.    You have heard of it no doubt. Two of my favorite bloggers wrote about Wordle on back to back days this week. That qualifies it as a craze for me, I don’t get out much.    Here’s an explanation of …