Sam's Club retools; focuses on everyday categories like food, downplays general merchandiseOctober 22nd, 2009 Sam's Club retools; emphasizes everyday itemsNEW YORK — Wal-Mart's Sam's Club chain hopes to steal more customers from rivals by expanding its space for such everyday categories as fresh food and health and beauty items at the expense of general merchandise like electronics. It is also mirroring moves unveiled Wednesday by the Wal-Mart chain by deepening price cuts on specific items.
Police: Ohio woman's lie about winning lottery, buying coats for everyone causes store riotOctober 14th, 2009 Lottery hoax causes riot at Ohio coat storeCOLUMBUS, Ohio — A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax. Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted, leaving the store looking as though a hurricane had passed through it, police said.
Gay partnership foes, supporters in Washington state await federal court ruling on signaturesOctober 14th, 2009 Gay partnership foes, backers in WA await rulingSEATTLE — Supporters and foes of gay domestic partnerships await a federal ruling from a three-judge panel on whether petitions for Washington states's Referendum 71 should be made public. The 9th U.S.
GM CEO Henderson says 'vast majority' of customers take $500 rebate over money-back guaranteeOctober 9th, 2009 GM CEO: Most customers taking rebate over refundNEW YORK — For most GM customers, a money-back guarantee just isn't as tempting as money up front. General Motors Co.
APNewsBreak: Referendum on Wash.'s 'everything but marriage' law qualifies for Nov. ballotAugust 31st, 2009 APNewsBreak: Gay partnership foes make ballotOLYMPIA, Wash. — A referendum that could overturn Washington state's "everything but marriage" domestic partnership law has qualified for the November ballot.
Nevada secretary of state's office to start taking domestic partnership applications next weekAugust 19th, 2009 Nevada office to take partnership applicationsCARSON CITY, Nev. — The Nevada secretary of state's office will take applications starting next week from couples who wish to register as domestic partners.
T-Mobile adds net 325,000 subscribers in second quarter, mostly prepaidAugust 6th, 2009 T-Mobile adds 325,000 net subs, mostly prepaidNEW YORK — T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the country, says it added a net 325,000 subscribers in the second quarter, with most of them choosing to prepay rather than sign two-year contracts. The news cements this year's trend in wireless: The two biggest, Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc., are attracting the valuable contract-signing customers, while Sprint Nextel Corp.
ATM glitch affects some Washington Mutual customers looking to withdrawal moneyJuly 24th, 2009 Some WaMu ATM customers unable to access moneyCHARLOTTE, N.C. — Some Washington Mutual customers were unable to access their money through WaMu ATMs for about 90 minutes early Friday morning.
United States Cellular lost 59,000 net retail customers in 2nd quarterJuly 23rd, 2009 US Cellular lost 59,000 retail customers in 2QCHICAGO — Wireless carrier United States Cellular Corp. said Thursday it lost 59,000 net retail customers in the second quarter.
GM has emerged from bankruptcy after signing paperwork to transfer assetsJuly 10th, 2009 GM emerges from bankruptcyDETROIT — General Motors Corp. CEO Fritz Henderson says the new GM will be far faster and more responsive to customers than the old one.
GM will make money, repay government loans faster : ChiefJuly 10th, 2009 DETROIT — The new General Motors will be far faster and more responsive to customers than the old one, and it will make money and repay government loans faster than required, CEO Fritz Henderson said Friday as the company emerged from bankruptcy protection. Henderson said the automaker completed its 40-day stay under court supervision far faster than anyone thought it could, saying it would repay about $50 billion in government loans ahead of a 2015 deadline.
Ticketmaster, Priceline.com to team up to give online customers access to travel servicesJuly 9th, 2009 WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Ticketmaster and Priceline.com say they will team up in order to give the ticket seller's online customers access to various travel services.
Enterprise to buy Teppco, forms largest publicly traded energy partnershipJune 29th, 2009 Enterprise, Teppco merge, form energy partnershipNEW YORK — Enterprise Products Partners says it will merge with Teppco to form the largest publicly traded energy partnership with an enterprise value of more than $26 billion. Enterprise, which transports natural gas and oil through its pipeline network, said Monday that Teppco unitholders will receive 1.24 Enterprise common units for each Teppco unit, a 14.5 percent premium to the initial offer made by Enterprise March 9.
Opponents to expansion of Washington state's domestic partnership law start referendum effortMay 4th, 2009 Challenge to domestic partnership expansion filedOLYMPIA, Wash. — Opponents of an "everything but marriage" bill for same-sex domestic partners have started their bid to overturn the latest effort to expand Washington state's domestic partnership law.
Detroit Free Press, newspaper partnership name top execs with Hunke's move to USA TodayApril 29th, 2009 Detroit Free Press, news partnership get top execsDETROIT — The Detroit Media Partnership and Detroit Free Press have announced their new top executives. Susie Ellwood will become chief executive of the Detroit Media Partnership, which oversees the business operations of the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News.
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