Auctionbytes eBay Australia Segments Shoppers into Tribes to Attract AdvertisersAuctionbytesBy Ina Steiner Did you know 7.3% of eBay Australia shoppers are "Crusaders" – career oriented singles and couples with high incomes and long work hours and who were "born to shop"? And that 14.6% of shoppers on eBay Australia are considered "DebtStars" …eBay Brings Offline…
French Connection considers ditching Royal Mail deliveriesMirror.co.ukFASHION firm French Connection is thinking of ditching Royal Mail deliveries after a hike in postal prices. Around 10% of its sales are made online and it uses the postal giant to dispatch orders. But Neil Williams, the firm's operations director, … More: continued here
New York Times Cuomo Pushing City to End Food-Stamp FingerprintingNew York TimesALBANY — New York City would have to stop requiring the electronic fingerprinting of food stamp applicants under regulations proposed on Thursday by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who has sided with advocates for the hungry who say it discourages people from …Cuomo ends finger…
Governor ends fingerprinting rule for food stampsAlbany Times UnionBy Jimmy Vielkind Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy, left, talks with Marie Farrell, center, and Josh Wachs of Share Our Strength, right, after announcing that the state will end finger imaging requirements for food stamp recipients, in the Red Room at … More: continued here
The recent deaths of more than 500 chicks en route to two local stores were not caused by procedures at the Keene Post Office, a spokesperson said Thursday. An assistant manager at one of the stores, though, says she questions whether procedures for caring for the live chicks were followed. More: continued here
Ukiah's former downtown post office has been listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. More: continued here
North Country Public Radio State drops fingerprinting requirement for food stamp recipientsNorth Country Public Radio(05/17/12) Governor Cuomo announced Thursday that he's rescinding a state regulation that requires food stamp recipients be fingerprinted. As Karen DeWitt reports, the governor is saying the poor and hungry are not criminals, and shouldn't be treated …and more » More: continued…
Mario Batali a hungry chef on food stamp challengeFox NewsThe chef, his wife and their two teenage sons are eating for a week on the equivalent of a food stamp budget in protest of potential cuts pending in Congress to the benefit program used by more than 46 million Americans. That's $31 per person for…
CHATTANOOGA — Chattanooga's Post Offices look to be spared from the first round of closing scheduled for this summer. More: continued here
New York Daily News Mario Batali takes 'Food Stamp challenge'? What challenge?Examiner.comTo prove he cares—that he is down with the 1% (the bottom 1% that is)—Batali has carefully lowered himself into the gutter (actually, for him I believe the gutter is “up”) with the 1 in 7 American families on Food Stamps so that he…