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Market stops selling cigarettes to ‘protect the health of it’s customers.’ Not sure if they will stop selling red meat, candy, ice cream, frozen pizzas, hot pockets.

Kyle — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:03:26 +0000

Hiller’s Markets Inc. will stop selling cigarettes at it seven Metro Detroit stores to protect the health of its customers, the Southfield-based company announced this morning.

CEO Jim Hiller said the decision was a difficult one. He said that although he wants to provide customers with a variety of items, smoking is an unhealthy habit and it’s in the best interest of customers for the company to stop selling cigarettes.

“I’ve agonized over this decision,” he said. “My personal beliefs are intertwined with my business ethos and to continue to sell cigarettes runs contrary to my personal commitment to this community and its future.”

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Here’s something to cheer up the US Automakers..

Kyle — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:06:44 +0000

According to the Highway Data Loss Institute of the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety has released its report on the most frequently stolen vehicles in the US. Rounding out the top five are the Ford F-250 pickup, standard Cadillac Escalade, Dodge Charger and the Ford F-350.

So the top five vehicales being stolen are US made. GO DETROIT!

Well at least that is some good news.

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Canadian Bailout of the U.S. Auto Industry stopped just short of the border.

Kyle — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:44:57 +0000

Eskender Mafarani of Richmond Hill, Ontario, appeared for a detention hearing Monday in federal court in Detroit in what border patrol agents are calling the largest bulk cash smuggling case ever in the eastern district of Michigan.

Mafarani, 52, was crossing the Ambassador Bridge into the United States in a blue Volvo truck Friday when a border patrol officer asked him if he had anything to declare, according to a U.S. District Court affidavit. Mafarani said he had nothing to declare and was traveling with $700, the affidavit states.

However, border patrol officers used X-ray images to find hidden compartments in the truck. A patrol dog also alerted the officers to two different areas near the side walls of the truck, authorities said.

Once they searched the truck, officers found more than $2 million in cash wrapped in 138 bundles in hidden compartments, along with six cell phones, a laptop computer and $1,220 in Canadian cash.
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