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The Independent reports: Customers rushed to evacuate a Costco retail store and a Chuck E Cheese restaurant in Superior, Colorado, on Thursday after a wildfire started spreading rapidly across the area due to gusty winds. Thousands of people in Colorado have been evacuated as hundreds of homes were destroyed by wildfires that tore through parts of the state. A video …

The New York Times reports: Last year, a frantic run on toilet paper that left store shelves bare across the United States became a symbol of the panic that seized Americans in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, at least one big-box retailer is trying to prevent a repeat of that frenzy as the Delta variant has driven …

The Insider reports: If you’re looking to buy a MyPillow product from Costco, you might struggle. The brand’s products seem to have disappeared from the retailer’s website. This is a change from January, when Costco said that it had “contractual commitments to MyPillow that we intend to honor” when asked for comment. Read the full article. Last week MyPillow CEO …

Newsweek reports: “The masks don’t work!” the maskless woman shouts at the other customers. “This has going been on for almost a year now! If they work so well, why are people still getting sick? Can you answer that question?” she said, approaching the person recording the video. The cameraperson responded that it’s because folks won’t wear a mask to …

CNN Money reports: Costco says it’s going to be raising prices on many items — and the company is pointing to U.S. tariffs on China as the reason why. “At the end of the day, prices will go up on things,” Costco chief financial officer Richard Galanti said this week in a call with investors, in response to a question …

“Costco has apparently had a ‘Come-to-Jesus’ epiphany. The national warehouse chain has apologized for labeling Bibles in a Simi Valley, Calif. store as fiction, calling it an error that they are working quickly to correct. ‘We deeply regret the mislabeling of the Bible and meant no offense to anyone,’ the company wrote in an email received by several customers. ‘The …

Fox News reporter Todd Starnes, who has never met a story that he couldn’t twist out of any remaining shred of truth, is on the warpath against Costco. What do the Bible, “The Hunger Games” and “Fifty Shades of Grey” have in common? All three are works of fiction, according to the booksellers at Costco. Pastor Caleb Kaltenbach made that …

After signing autographs for fans, today Joan Rivers handcuffed herself to a Costco shopping cart in protest that the discount giant has banned her new book due to naughty language on its jacket. Police were called to remove Rivers from the premises. “Costco, who sells condoms by the pallet, who sells Paula Deen books and – which is not good …

Manhattan gets it first taste of mega-box retailing today with the opening of the massive East River Plaza mall on FDR Drive in East Harlem. Anchor tenant Costco’s 110,000 square foot store is open as of this morning, coming in the next few months will be the long panted-over Target, as well as other jumbo retailers at the 500,000 square …