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—>John visited his local Rhode Island Subway every weekday for the past two months to enjoy what he thought was a healthy lunch. That all came to end after he overheard a Subway worker say to her colleague: "I don't know how anybody could eat this stuff everyday. It's disgusting and it will make you fat." More »
—>Breeder ships rare pregnant cat via airline. It arrives frozen and dead. According to the airline's vet, the cat died from uterine toxicity from multiple dead kittens. Because the baggage handlers thawed, froze, and thawed the cat again, there's no way for the breeder to prove that the cat died from being frozen. The airline has offered to refund the breeder's ticket, but admits no culpability in the cat's death. More »
—> David C. Richardson, the owner of Rhode Island Refrigeration in Providence, Rhode Island, overheard two customers speaking Spanish to each other, so he asked them to produce proof of citizenship. According to them, he then threatened to call Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and make a citizen's arrest, although Richardson denies he picked up the phone, but not that he made the threats. In fact, he says he's done this "fifteen or twenty times" in the past and refuses to do business with those who won't show their Social Security cards. More »
New Jersey, Rhode Island and Connecticut are preparing legislation similar to New York State's airline passenger's bill of rights. [San Francisco Chronicle via ConsumerWorldBlog] More »
...you'll certainly feel like a criminal once the local record shop makes copies of all of your identifying information and even collects your fingerprints. Such is the state of affairs in Florida, which now has the dubious distinction of being so anal about the sale of used music CDs that record shops there are starting to get out of the business of dealing with used content because they don't want to pay a $10,000 bond for the "right" to treat their customers like criminals. ... More »
In the Stop & Shop case, police say that late at night — after shopping crowds had thinned and the staff was whittled to a skeletal crew — four young men entered several stores in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, distracted employees and replaced several card-swiping machines with devices that looked similar. The thieves' systems, however, housed mini circuit boards that recorded customers' data and PINs. More »
Police in Rhode Island have arrested four people in connection with a recent security breach at Stop & Shop Supermarket Cos. More »
—>Massachusetts and Rhode Island are opening probes into T.J. Maxx after the retailer lost millions of consumer's credit cards in a recent breach. More »
