Alcohol sales to minors becomes issue with self-checkout lanes

For years, magazine publishers (and the brands who buy ads inside their pages) have enjoyed heavy impulse sales from bored supermarket shoppers, trapped in checkout lines, who find themselves leafing through Vogue or Cosmo while waiting to pay for groceries.

Word has gotten out that men do more of the household shopping nowadays. Accordingly, we’re being asked to shop in “man aisles” in supermarkets, and we’re even being subjected to an awful new made-up term: “mansumer.” Blame the global media agency network BPN for “mansumer,” a term that, thankfully, hasn’t really caught on.

Word has gotten out that men do more of the household shopping nowadays. Accordingly, we’re being asked to shop in “man aisles” in supermarkets, and we’re even being subjected to an awful new made-up term: “mansumer.” Blame the global media agency network BPN for “mansumer,” a term that, thankfully, hasn’t really caught on.

Conor Friedersdorf reminds me of one of the odder regulations out there, New York State’s rules about who can sell liquor:

MONTREAL — Metro Inc. is launching a share buy back program in the wake of selling a large stake in its 25-year investment in Alimentation Couche-Tard. The grocer says it intends to buy up to 2 million common shares from arm’s-length, third-party sellers at a discount to the market price at the time it buys the stock. There has been speculation over how Metro would use the estimated $380-million in net proceeds from the sale of nearly half its stake in convenience store operator Couche-Tard.

Fund investors face paying income tax on “loyalty bonuses” paid by fund supermarkets from next week after HM Revenue & Customs ruled that the payments are “annual payments” and should therefore be taxed as income, starting in the new tax year – April 6. Hargreaves Lansdown, the largest payer of loyalty bonuses on funds in the UK, called it “anti-competitive” and said it was a “worrying precedent” that could spread to other forms of cashback, such as those on supermarket loyalty schemes and credit cards.