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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 …

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Would Kroger Merger Hurt Consumers?

by Alina Selyukh National Public Radio    Will America’s two largest grocery store chains get to become one?    That’s the question before U.S. regulators, who are deciding whether to block Kroger’s $24.6 billion purchase of Albertsons. Several state attorneys general, too, have signaled they might sue to halt the deal.    At stake is a shakeup …

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