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Toys R Us to open holiday pop-up shops in Macy's
Toys R Us and Macy’s, two major holiday shopping destinations, are teaming up for the Christmas rush by opening pop-up stores from the toy giant within the department store. The temporary Toys R Us units inside 24 Macy’s stores nationwide...
Tags: JC Penney Company Inc., Toy Industry, Neiman Marcus, Toys "R" Us, Inc., Target
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Tom Sims dies at 61; snowboard pioneer
Tom Sims, an innovative skateboarding and snowboarding pioneer and former world champion who helped bring snowboarding to the masses by pushing ski resorts to embrace the fledgling sport in the 1980s, has died. He was 61. The founder of Sims...
Tags: Entertainment, Snowboarding, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Radio, Half Pipe Snowboarding
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Where do old refrigerators go to die?
The decline of my 10-year-old refrigerator started with an unsettling wheezing sound and ended with a death rattle that would have cost $500 to fix. So I, like 10 million other Americans each year, dropped money on a new fridge and had the broken one...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Environmental Politics, Environmental Issues, Southern California Edison Company, Electrical Appliance
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J.C. Penney hopes free-haircut program boosts sales
J.C. Penney said it will be offering haircuts to children for free starting in November after a trial program last month resulted in 1.6 million crops. Kids in kindergarten through sixth grade will be eligible for free cuts every Sunday starting Nov. 4,...
Tags: Prices, JC Penney Company Inc., Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Target
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J.C. Penney and Cosmopolitan magazine: Sexy pairing or scary?
It’s an unlikely pairing: Cosmopolitan, the magazine known for its frank sex advice and sultry photo spreads, will debut a line of products for J.C. Penney, the struggling retailer often associated with dowdiness. Cosmo announced Thursday that it...
Tags: JC Penney Company Inc., Clothing, Accessories, and Shoes, New Products, Services and Shopping, Newspaper and Magazine
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Marion Cunningham dies at 90; icon of American cooking
Marion Cunningham's crusade to preserve the nightly supper hour came of her concern that without it children would never learn table manners or the give and take of dinner conversation. Not only that, she worried that such traditional American dishes as...Tags: Ruth Reichl, Newspapers, Arts and Culture, Recipes, Walnuts
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Norman Sas dies at 87; inventor of quirky tabletop toy called Electric Football
Well before "Madden NFL" video games, there was a quirky tabletop toy called Electric Football. Surely you remember it: Metal playing field. Two teams of 11 plastic football players, each standing on a rectangular base with prongs on the bottom and a...
Tags: Sports Illustrated, Football, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Entertainment, Cleveland Browns
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Car review: 2013 Ford Escape thwarted by high tech
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "To be simple is to be great." Memo to the minds behind Ford's 2013 Escape: Read more Emerson.
At its core, this completely redesigned compact sport-utility vehicle is a great vehicle. It is comfortable, capable and not bad...Tags: Ford, SUVs and Crossovers, Services and Shopping, Toyota, Science and Technology
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Readers' Choice 2012: Home
Bed/Mattress Store Ortho Mattress Multiple area locations www.orthomattress.com Ortho Mattress has been providing beds (and bedding) to Southern California residents since 1957. Now, with more than 70 locations, the company continues to offer national...
Tags: Non-durable Goods Industry, Companies and Corporations, Consumers, Economy, Business and Finance, Staples Center
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A heady brew of movie dreams
The cafe is narrow, with a dozen little tables and a gray concrete floor. Nothing too fancy. Nothing too shiny. No espresso poured into designer porcelain with a dusting of organic cacao and a layer of orange-infused, textured milk. No movie stars. Or...
Tags: Film Festivals, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Sofia Coppola, Entertainment, John Coltrane
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More for Your Money: Four-star Maui on a two-star budget
Condo by the beach with pool and ocean view: $129 including taxes.
Late lunch at the ritzy resort next door: $10
Kona coffee, beach towels, beach chairs, parking. Priceless. As in free.
Even on Maui, one of Hawaii's priciest destinations, affordable...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Arts and Culture, McDonald's, Hotels and Accommodations, Beaches
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Sears returns to profit, J.C. Penney bombs in record stock slide
Sears Holding Co. may be back from the brink, once again earning a profit in its first quarter. J.C. Penney, however, has been less blessed as consumers and investors roundly trounced its turnaround effort this week. On Thursday, Sears said it earned...
Tags: Prices, JC Penney Company Inc., Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements
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