Publix Recalls Bakery Items

Have a cake you’re already saving for the holidays? If so, and it’s from the Tampa Palms or any of the other New Tampa Publix supermakets, it potentially could be one of numerous products the grocery chain has recalled due to the suspicion of infection by a bacteria that could cause health problems.Continue reading

‘Black Friday’ Starting Thanksgiving Day & Other Black Eyes

As I sat back and started to watch the New England Patriots dismantle the New York Jets at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, I felt a shudder inside me as I thought of all those people who already had been on line for eight, 12, 28 hours (and more) in order to grab the biggest bargains for “Pre-Black-Friday,” which started for some retailers (and, of course, their least senior employees and their families) at the same time as the kickoff of the final NFL Game on Thanksgiving Day — which I believe is the first time that Black Friday has started on Thanksgiving Thursday.Continue reading

‘Black Friday’ Starting Thanksgiving Day & Other Black Eyes

As I sat back and started to watch the New England Patriots dismantle the New York Jets at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, I felt a shudder inside me as I thought of all those people who already had been on line for eight, 12, 28 hours (and more) in order to grab the biggest bargains for “Pre-Black-Friday,” which started for some retailers (and, of course, their least senior employees and their families) at the same time as the kickoff of the final NFL Game on Thanksgiving Day — which I believe is the first time that Black Friday has started on Thanksgiving Thursday.Continue reading