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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Catering to all those who will make New Year’s resolutions to lose weight or eat better, Lowes Food Stores will host a healthy eating-themed Twitter party on Jan. 5.
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A Twitter party is a virtual party discussing a topic using the Twitter platform. Most Twitter parties have a host to keep the party on topic The host for Wednesday’s party is Cindy Silver, Lowes’ corporate nutritionist.
Silver is part of Lowes’ newly launched Savvy Shoppers, a five-person team of employees and consumers charged with helping shoppers make the most of their food-shopping experience. The “Savvy Shopper” team writes blogs, and provides recipe suggestions, money saving ideas and suggestions of other websites to visit.
Each week, a different member of the Savvy Shoppers team hosts a Twitter party.
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WASHINGTON — Kathy Miller Replica omega watches, owner of the Elmore Store in Elmore, Vt., called credit-card interchange fees “a quick way to go bankrupt” during testimony earlier this week before the House Financial Service Committee here.
Miller said a 35-cent pack of gum that costs the store 21 cents requires an interchange fee of 21 cents, “so I just lost money [and] I should just let [the customer] take it. Obviously we lose money on many small transactions and too much on others Replica vacheron constantin watches, so we have to raise prices because we can’t absorb it all.”
Her testimony was made in favor of H.R. 2382, which advocates reform of the credit-card payment system to include lower rates that are cost-based and more transparent to consumers — legislation endorsed by the National Grocers Association and the Food Marketing Institute.
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BEECH GROVE, Ind. — Workers at a Marsh location here are set to vote Sept. 17 on whether to form a union at the store, according to United Food and Commercial Workers Local 700 Replica swiss watches, which said it has been seeking to unionize the chain.
A majority of workers at the store petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to hold the election Replica vacheron constantin watches, the union said. No other stores operated by Indianapolis-based Marsh Supermarkets are unionized, the local said, although warehouse workers and truck drivers employed by the chain belong to unions.
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The union has filed two complaints against Marsh with the NLRB, accusing it of disciplining workers who sought to form a union.
In a prepared statement, Marsh said its store-level workers “have chosen for over 79 years to not be represented by a union.”
“We keep an open dialogue with our associates and keep them informed on relevant developments, and address specific issues when they arise. We believe that in this situation, our associates will again decide that the union has nothing to offer them and will vote ‘no’ on election day.”
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It was with great sadness that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today learned of the death of the Chairman of the Vancouver Organising Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC), Jack Poole.
Speaking after hearing the news, IOC President Jacques Rogge, said “It is with great sadness that I learned today that my dear friend and colleague Jack Poole had passed away. Jack was a truly exceptional human being and a great ambassador for the Olympic Movement. His belief in the good that the Olympic Games would bring to Vancouver, British Columbia and Canada was second to none. It was his exceptional spirit and wise leadership that saw Vancouver win the Games and that has put the Vancouver 2010 Organising Committee in such a strong position today. At the Opening Ceremony of the Games next February, we will all have a thought for Jack, as the Games that he dreamt about and built finally become a reality.
“My thoughts and condolences, as well as those of everyone in the Olympic Movement, are with his wife Darlene, his family, friends, and, of course, the team at VANOC during this very difficult time for them all. Jack will be fondly remembered by all who had the good fortune to know him. He will be greatly missed.”
IOC Coordination Commission Chairman for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games René Fasel said, “Jack Poole was a great leader and a great man. It was a pleasure to work with him and I am proud to say that we became friends, as we worked together towards our common Olympic goal. Jack was a key driving force behind the success of the Vancouver 2010 bid, as he was behind the preparation of these Games. I am in no doubt that one of Jack’s legacies will be great Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 and I am sure that everyone at VANOC will work day and night to do his vision proud. My thoughts and those of all the Coordination Commission members are with his family Replica vacheron constantin watches, friends and everyone at VANOC during these very difficult days.”
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By Christopher Donville
(Updates with China’s consumer prices in fifth paragraph.)
July 29 (Bloomberg) — Demand for physical gold in China may exceed consumption in India by the end of this year, said Chuck Jeannes, chief executive officer of Goldcorp Inc. Cartier tank solo watches, the world’s No. 2 producer of the metal by market value.
“Three or four years ago there was no one who would have expected Chinese physical demand for gold to surpass India,” Jeannes said yesterday in a telephone interview from New York. “Now it looks like that could happen as early as the end of this year. And that’s while Indian demand is increasing.”
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Investment demand in China more than doubled in the first quarter to 90.9 metric tons as the nation overtook India to become the largest market for coins and bars, the World Gold Council said in May. India was the largest consumer of gold jewelry last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Gold reached a record $1,631.20 an ounce on July 27 in New York on concern about a potential U.S. default and is heading for an 11th straight annual increase.
Consumer prices in China advanced 6.4 percent in June from a year earlier, the biggest gain since June 2008 and exceeding the government’s target of 4 percent. The central bank has raised interest rates five times and the reserve-requirement ratio 12 times since the start of 2010 to stem inflation.
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Demand for gold in both China and India may help lift the price of the precious metal, said Jeannes Bentley motors watches, who said he expects gold to advance to $1,700 an ounce by the end of the year.
“I predicted a $1,600 gold price at the beginning of the year, and am happy to see it there now,” Jeannes said. “I wouldn’t be surprised to see it move significantly higher by the end of the year.”
Gold may be $1,510 an ounce in the December quarter, according to the median of 19 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
Goldcorp, based in Vancouver, is second by market value after Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp., the world’s largest gold producer.
–With assistance from Pham-Duy Nguyen in Seattle and Helen Yuan in Shanghai. Editors: Rebecca Keenan, Indranil Ghosh
To contact the reporter on this story: Christopher Donville in Vancouver at cjdonville@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Simon Casey at scasey4@bloomberg.net.
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