The two pharmacists were ordered to pay a fine and had their licenses temporarily suspended.

All shopping really is is a distraction. It’s a form of procrastination. We don’t typically call other forms of procrastination like…turning our phones off and drinking a bottle of wine therapy. We call that good old-fashioned procrastination. Yet, somehow, shopping snuck its way out of the procrastination category and into the therapy one. Maybe because we do it soberly (eh, well, not always. Mimosas and shopping go well together).

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  By H. Fields Grenée Its three minutes before six o’clock in the morning. Gazing out the locked front doors at the small crowd gathering to take part in the traditional after holiday sales – you prep yourself for what is sure to be a hectic day. Yet beyond the customer purchases, disputes and sales […]

(Black Enterprise) — In 1994 Curtiss Pope’s first job was as a grocery store clerk. Only 15, he couldn’t understand why there wasn’t a document to show customers which aisle had the bread and which aisle had the dairy. “I had to be well versed in the store layout,” remembers Pope. Fast-forward to 2008; Pope, […]

(AP) — The blizzard that swept through the Northeast on Sunday and Monday delayed $1 billion in retail spending, according to research firm ShopperTrak, but won’t derail a holiday shopping season expected to be the best since 2007.  The effect won’t be as bad as last year’s pre-Christmas snowstorm that similarly paralyzed parts of the […]

(Washington Examiner) — Business owners are angry over the District’s new bike lanes, which are taking up dozens of valuable parking spaces along 15th Street Northwest.  “I don’t know why they wouldn’t just chop away two feet of sidewalk,” said Haroon Mokel, campus director at Strayer University near 15th and M streets. “That’s where bikers […]

(Wall Street Journal) — Some major retailers are making it easier to return gifts this holiday season, after years of tightening policies and generating complaints from consumers.  Best Buy Co. this month became the latest large chain to loosen its return policy when it eliminated a 15% “restocking fee” on electronics that had stirred a […]

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