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9/ 13/ 24, 12: 23 PM The New York Timeshttps:// nytimes. pressreader. com/ the- new- york- times/ 20240824 21/ 42 9/ 13/ 24, 12: 23 PM The New York Times https:// nytimes. pressreader. com/ the- new- york- times/ 20240824 23/ 42 [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the formation of a multi-agency coalition led by the U.S. Justice Department to combat the proliferation of illegal electronic-cigarettes, particularly flavored vapes appealing to adolescents. It highlights concerns over health risks, federal enforcement efforts involving fines and penalties, and industry pressure on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to curtail illicit vaping products in the U.S..

The article reports on the less-expensive brand of snack chips at Casey's General Stores that have become in demand among customers as prices of national brands like Lay's and Doritos chips have increased. It shows the growing market for private-label goods compared with national brands attributed to shift in consumer spending and attitudes and changing grocery landscape and competition because of consolidation.

The article reports on humidity affecting the South in the U.S. Topics discussed include remarks from Barry D. Keim, Louisiana's state climatologist, state of emergency declared by Governor John Bel Edwards over the heat, and heat-related horrors presented by summer of 2023 around the world, not just the South.

The article focuses on a conversation between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and voters in New Hampshire, where they discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Topics include DeSantis' stance on the conflict, his support for Israel, and a voter's criticism of Israel's actions and the lack of neighboring Arab countries absorbing Palestinian refugees.

The article reports that the trial of two police officers charged in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a young Black man, set to begin this week in Colorado, with the case connected to a broader national movement against police brutality and racial injustice.

The article focuses on a flavorless candy named "Flavorless (?) Candy" that gained attention and allure in Japan despite having no taste, its brief appearance in Japanese convenience stores, and the philosophical and reflective reactions it sparked among consumers.

The article focuses on various news including the very private life of Melania Trump since leaving the White House, the therapeutic benefits of pool exercises for an individual who finds relief in the water, and the legal case of actor Kevin Spacey being found not guilty of sexual assault.

The article focuses on the life and legacy of Masatoshi Ito the founder of Seven & I Holdings and the man responsible for introducing 7-Eleven stores to Japan passed away on March 10, 2023. Topics include his success in transforming Japanese retail, his resignation amidst a scandal involving racketeers, and his continued influence on the company he founded.

Focuses on 7-Eleven Inc.'s acquisition of the automated teller machine network inits stores from the American Express Co. to add to its financial services business and increase customer traffic.

Reports that grocery distributor Fleming Cos. won court approval to reorganize as a convenience store supplier. Filing for bankruptcy protection in 2003; Enabling of senior noteholders and unsecured creditors to have shares in the reorganized company; Reorganization of the company around its Core-Mark unit.

The article focuses on the opening of Amazon Go, the cashierless, brick-and-mortar convenience store concept of Amazon, in New York City in May 2019. Topics covered include the skepticism of New York customers of the company's motives, the store's use of proprietary Amazon technology to allow shoppers to walk out without waiting in a checkout line, and the positive reactions of customers and organizations to the store concept.

The article offers information on the climate change which has made storms more powerful and frequent, increased the intensity of droughts and contributed to more extreme wildfires, and, as a result, many insurance companies say their premier.

The article examines the dispute between convenience store chain 7-11 and its franchisees that underscores the shifting nature of the franchise business. Topics discussed include insights from Michael Jorgensen, vice chairman of the National Coalition of Associations of 7-11 Franchisees, on how some strategic decisions of the franchiser hurt store owners. Also mentioned are franchisees' issues on the contentious new 50,000 dollars franchise renewal fee.

The article offers information on a chain of convenience stores, Buc-ee in Texas.

The article focuses on the Goods Mart, a conscious convenience store which opened on Lafayette Street in SoHo, New York and managed by Rachel Krupa.

The article focuses on the shave ice tradition in Hawaii. Topics covered include the origin of shave ice, which began with Japanese immigrants to the island, the popularity of shave ice among tourists including U.S. President Barack Obama, and the recipe for a good-tasting shave ice. Also mentioned are grocery stores in Hawaii that are known for selling shave ice.

The article reports on the constant assault of snatch-and-dash crooks and shoplifters at the Duane Reade convenience store in the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, New York City. It states that the store is a reminder of the bus terminal's grittiness where the homeless and addicts stay that hampered the city's low-crime rates. Also mentioned are the vulnerabilities of the store on the said crime due to its multiple entries and the criminal charges filed against the shoplifters.

A review is offered for Ohm Deli Corp. convenience store located in Brooklyn, New York City.

The article presents the most read, shared and discussed posts from across the nytimes.com on topics including the passage of a stopgap bill by the U.S. Congress to end government shudtown, opioid addiction in Patrick Griffin's family, and the Amazon Go convenience store.

The article discusses the installation "8 'Till Late", a mock convenience store by artist Lucy Sparrow beside the Standard, High Line, hotel in New York.

This article presents information about the troubles of Mamadou Diallo ever since the death of his cousin Amadou Diallo in 1999. Amadou Diallo was shot by New York City detectives when they thought he was reaching into his pocket for a gun. He was hit with 19 of the 41 bullets shot at him. Mamadou was asked to identify his cousin after the shooting. He has worked to make a living since the shooting, but is struggling because a deal to sell his convenience store has fallen through.

The article reports that the British grocery chain Tesco, that nation's largest retailer, will enter the U.S. market with a chain of convenience stores called Fresh and Easy which will open in several Western states in 2007. Other prominent British retailers have failed in prior U.S. ventures. Tesco's modest initial venture is seen as preparation for entering the hyperstore market dominated by Wal-Mart.

This article reports in developments in automatic teller machine technology. A new generation of machines made by Info Touch Technologies allows patrons to pay bills, make money transfers, buy phone cards and cash checks as well as simply getting cash. The machines are placed in 7-Eleven convenience stores, at Exxon Mobil gasoline stations and at Circle K stores.

Focuses on Operation Meth Merchant, an investigation into forty-nine convenience store clerks and owners in rural northwest Georgia who are accused of selling materials used to make methamphetamine. Review of the evidence in the case reported by federal prosecutors, garnered from hidden microphones and cameras; Discussion of how some of the defendants are Indian immigrants; Cultural differences related to appearance and language that are complicating the case.

Reports that John Malik, a retired detective, has admitted in court that he was joking around with his gun when it went off and fatally wounded Manuel Chametla, a clerk in a convenience store. Description of the incident; How Malik told police a different story of the incident at first; Comments of Noe Chametla, the boy's father, on Malik's sentencing.

Several blogs including predicting short-term market performance, the $1 charges at credit card from convenience store and the increasing interest rates which has caused investors to dump their funds are discussed.

The article reports on the move of convenience store chain, 7-Eleven Inc., to focus on providing healthier food options to its customers. It notes that the change is aiming to make 20-percent of the company's sales come from fresh foods in its American and Canadian stores by 2015. It adds that the retail chain has also formed a team of culinary and food science experts to study industry trends and develop new products.

The article discusses the registration of the U.S. citizens to Powerball at convenience stores and delicatessens (delis) for lottery tickets. Michael Jones, superintendent at Illinois Lottery, says that the Mega Millions prize of Powerball is the second-largest lottery prize in the U.S. history which has reached $657 million dollars in March 2012. It adds that the unfavorable comparing of lottery odds with the odds of dying in peculiars ways serves as an standard news media coverage practice.

JAKARTA -- As night falls, groups of twenty-somethings gather at a trendy hangout, chatting at tables laden with beer, iced coffee and nachos. Some couples cuddle over chocolate pudding, while others groove to music on their iPhones. The nightspot has live bands, Wi-Fi and a growing clientele. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Developers in the last half-century called it progress when they built homes and shopping malls far from city centers throughout the country, sounding the death knell for many downtowns. But now an alarmed cadre of public health experts say these expanded metropolitan areas have had a far more serious impact on the people who live there by creating vehicle-dependent environments that foster obesity, poor health, social isolation, excessive stress and depression. As a result, these experts say, our ''built environment'' - where we live, work, play and shop - has become a leading cause of disability and death in the 21st century. Physical activity has been disappearing from the lives of young and old, and many communities are virtual ''food deserts,'' serviced only by convenience stores that stock nutrient-poor prepared foods and drinks. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Criminals robbing convenience stores have not been able to escape them. Fathers taking a soccer ball to the groin a la ''America's Funniest Home Videos'' have not been able to escape them. Couples having sex on a supposedly secluded beach have not been able to escape them. And yet ghosts and other paranormal entities so far have proved amazingly adept at avoiding the millions of security cameras, cellphone cameras and video cameras that now seem to record virtually every moment of life on earth. That remarkable streak is continuing with ''Paranormal Challenge,'' which arrived in June on the Travel Channel; ''Haunted Collector,'' which turned up at about the same time on Syfy; and ''Paranormal Witness,'' which begins on Wednesday, also on Syfy. This is just a guess, but presumably the streak will also remain intact once ''Long Island Medium'' makes its debut on TLC this month. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LIKE most MetroCard-carrying New Yorkers, Sara Schwartz normally spends Saturday night flitting about the city. But as Hurricane Irene approached last week, the only place Ms. Schwartz was heading was to a sleepover party in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. She arrived at a friend's apartment with reinforcements: cheese, prosciutto, bread, wine (she left the bottled water at home because it weighed down her bag), clothes for several days, bug spray (in case they lost power and their sweat lured mosquitoes, she said), a flashlight and a box of cake mix that had been in her kitchen for two years. Its time had come. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CORRECTION APPENDED VAMPIRE WEEKEND and Bright Eyes will be among the headliners at the Music to Know festival in East Hampton, N.Y., this summer. So will the Olsen twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley. The two will be hawking their wares at a pop-up shop, one in a string of tented booths that aim to turn the festival on Aug. 13 and 14 into a one-stop shopping destination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PARIS -- On a recent Sunday afternoon, the Champs-Elysees was packed with people enjoying this city's most famous boulevard -- window shopping, sipping wine at sidewalk cafes and strolling toward the river with ice cream cones. Then there were the 150 people waiting to get into an American retail chain store. And that was one of the shortest lines since the store, Abercrombie & Fitch, opened here last month. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A COUPLE of decades ago, if you were visiting Manchester you were probably there for business, or perhaps because of familial commitments. But while staggering unemployment and urban decay didn't inspire much in the way of tourism to this post-industrial English city, it did inspire a movement of disaffected youth whose music still resonates. Indeed, while the grim years that inspired the depressive romanticism of bands like Joy Division and the Smiths have made way for large-scale urban development, Manchester's prolific musical energy hasn't dissipated. Today, in the once-derelict Northern Quarter, record stores, live venues and sonic-minded galleries and pubs hold dominion. Dive bar jukeboxes are impeccably curated wonder cabinets. And even in the gleaming, rebuilt glass-and-steel city center, it's not uncommon to hear rare late-'60s Northern Soul tracks or jagged '90s post-rock songs booming out of some garishly lighted all-night convenience store. Looking over the last 40 or so years, one can see Manchester as a kind of English New Orleans -- a moody hedonist's stomp defined by water, weather and, above all else, music. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Country stores like you imagine still exist. With old farmers sitting on a bench in front and glass bottles full of cold soda that you open with that little metal doohickey on the side of the cooler. The Trap Family Market is one. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For years, it seemed as if precision lighting was a fundamental element of retail design. Stores had the perfect amount of soft, incandescent light with a touch of track lighting to highlight a featured ensemble, akin to the way museums focus light on fabulous works of art. Unfortunately, those days are over. A new and incredibly irritating trend has sprung up in retail design: dark, darker and nocturnal. As if shopping with teenagers isn't bad enough, now we can barely see what they want us to pay absurd amounts of money for. There are several trendy chain stores that are so dark that you're not sure they're open until you step inside. And then, as your eyes start to adjust from a sun-filled city street or a mall's fluorescent glare, you may be slightly startled by a sales associate lurking in the shadows as he or she greets you with a semi-friendly ''Hey, how's it goin'?'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lantana, Fla. I USUALLY run errands in the afternoon, but one morning last week I was restless and had a craving for Apple Jacks. So I hopped on my bicycle and headed toward the convenience store. For the first few blocks I zigzagged along, enjoying the quiet roads of my sleepy neighborhood. But as I approached the first big intersection, I realized something strange was going on. Cars were jockeying for position, horns blaring; the nose of an Audi came dangerously close to striking my rear tire. The light went red, my feet touched down to stop and steady myself, and as I gazed at the traffic backing up in both directions, I asked myself, ''Where on earth are all these people going?'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The American convenience store chain 7-Eleven is the unnamed third party that has bid $2 billion for Casey's General Stores, topping an offer from Alimentation Couche-Tard, a person briefed on the matter said on Wednesday. Casey's announced on Tuesday that it had received a $40-a-share offer from an unnamed bidder on Sept. 2 but that the proposal was too low. Still, the offer exceeds the $38.50-a-share bid by Couche-Tard, a Canadian company that owns the Circle K stores. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BP's shares have suffered in the stock market, but local convenience stores have become an increasingly visible venue for public displeasure with the company's inability to stop the spread of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Protests at BP gas stations have sprouted around the world, with events scheduled at franchises from Berlin to Concord, Calif. And almost 300,000 people have joined a ''Boycott BP'' group on Facebook. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

You, over there, mouthing off about the death of print. Keep it down; this is a library. Not just any library: This is Battery Park City's public library branch, the city's newest, greenest one yet, and it's quite a sight to behold. To the left as you enter is an ecologically correct circulation desk made -- though you'd never know it -- from recycled cardboard, and topped with a bouquet of fresh tulips. Should you find a crowd, try the sleek self-service stations a couple of steps away. Some of the library's 36 Internet-connected computers lie just around the bend. Overhead, a jigsaw puzzle of scalene triangles zigs and zags along the ceiling. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Mimi's Hummus is one of the restaurants that have given Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, some allure for diners. Now its owner, Avi Shuker, has added something for shoppers, a beautifully curated little food shop next door. The store, all done in pale wood, is crammed floor to ceiling with products and ingredients, many destined for the Middle Eastern table. Some items, including various olives, spice mixes and a few pastries like sesame sandwich cookies, are made by Mimi's. Others are from local purveyors, like Mast Brothers chocolate, Brooklyn Brine pickles and Hot Bread kitchen flatbreads. Imported labneh in oil, pomegranate molasses, Spanish quince paste and cheeses and various kinds of dried beans and lentils are also sold, as is fresh bread from Balthazar and Royal Crown. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A FEW years ago, I changed jobs, moving from the beverage industry to the biopharmaceutical industry. I didn't know how to get ahead in the new environment, however, so I turned to a mentoring program. I'd recommend finding a mentor for help with your career. If you're open to what you hear and have realistic expectations, I can't think of a downside. In 2005, I was a customer retention representative at an Atlanta beverage company when I learned that my department was relocating to Tampa. I dealt with convenience stores, hotels and other facilities that had a soda machine or soda fountain on the premises. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Despite the best intentions, New Year's resolutions seldom last long. Faced with the enticements at Delicacy International Market, resolutions that involve eating less are likely to evaporate. At first glance, this tightly confined store looks like other urban groceries, with a selection of fresh produce -- apples, pears, pomegranates, peppers and whatnot -- by the entrance. But step up to the shelves of canned and jarred goods, and the complexion changes. The display has a decidedly Eastern European flavor, with an emphasis on several mushroom species (including king boletes, $12 for a 24-ounce jar), pickled vegetables and cans of fish (notably mackerel, herring and cod liver, from $2.29 to $4). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT'S not often, when touring a home, that one has the chance to say, ''Love what you've done with the boiler.'' But in the Greenwich Village duplex of Kein Cross, a designer, the basement is so impressive, even the Con Ed guys are said to take note. The boiler area is especially dolled up right now, since the ebullient Mr. Cross, a former department-store display director and owner of the beloved but now defunct Chelsea store La Maison Moderne, is turning his home into a shop for three days this weekend. And in his Christmas retail tradition, he said, he plans to be decked out in a red fez and black-and-silver silk paisley robe. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Jacob Zuma condemned violent demonstrations against poor public services on Tuesday as a violation of the country's history of protest. ''Burning down libraries, torching people's houses and looting spaza shops do not build a strong nation,'' he said. Spaza shops are unlicensed convenience stores. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]