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NEWS ABOUT: flour

flour stories: 4 news summaries

 Sam Growls 
 Over PETA
 'Flour Bomb' 

PETA dusts 'fur hag' Lohan with flour in Paris

Nov 16, 08 8:08 AM CST
(Newser) - Fur-wearing Lindsay Lohan was "flour bombed" by a PETA activist in Paris over the weekend, and lover Samantha Ronson is whining about it, reports E! Online. "My dog is far more civilized than that person," Ronson sniffs in her MySpace blog. The activist dumped a bag of... More »

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Lindsay Lohan • fur • PETA • flour • Samantha Ronson

Sam's Club Joins Costco
in Limiting Rice Purchases

Warehouse chains react to rising prices, apparent hoarding

Apr 23, 08 8:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sam's Club joined Costco today in limiting how much rice customers can buy, Bloomberg reports. The restrictions by the nation's largest warehouse retail chains come with the price of rice at record highs around the world, which has spurred some to begin hoarding, Bloomberg notes. Sam's Club customers can buy... More »

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Costco • Sam's Club • food prices • Wal-Mart • flour • rice prices

Costco Sees High Demand
for Basics Rice, Flour

CEO attributes run to customer uncertainty over food supplies

Apr 22, 08 9:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Costco is seeing unusually high demand for basics such as rice and flour, Reuters reports, a development the warehouse giant attributes to customer uncertainty over global food shortages. The company, which sells to individual shoppers as well as restaurants, has put limits in place for those items at some stores.... More »

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Costco • food prices • food supply • flour • rice prices

 Flour Is Costing a Lot of Bread 

The rising cost of wheat is forcing bakers to increase their prices

Mar 16, 08 8:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Consumers are getting hit in the breadbasket as tight flour supplies push bakers’ costs higher, reports the Los Angeles Times. Wheat crop failures, the weak US dollar and more farmers growing corn for ethanol instead of grain have more than doubled the price of a 50-pound bag of flour... More »

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bread • consumer prices • pizza • wheat prices • flour • bakers

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