bad names Department store apologizes for selling child's party dress called "Lollita" David Pescovitz
dollar stores Dollar Tree to change its name to Dollars Tree. (Well, they should anyway.) David Pescovitz
malls The "spirit" in Spirit Halloween doesn't refer to ghosts, and other secrets of the bizarre seasonal store David Pescovitz
theft Watch this brazen Walgreens shoplifter fill a garbage bag with stolen stuff and ride a bike out the door David Pescovitz
grocery stores Visiting what may be the most remote and expensive supermarket in America David Pescovitz
olly olly oxen free Thousands sign up to play unauthorized hide-and-seek game at Ikea, police called in David Pescovitz
materialism Arbitrage nomads are stripping the carcasses of America's dying big-box stores and moving the choicest morsels into Amazon warehouses Cory Doctorow
