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Work underway on area's first Wal-Mart market

...It's a lot of labor."This is Wal-Mart's first neighborhood market in the metro Augusta area."People will shop that store and they know that," Harmon said.A second neighborhood market store is planned on 15th Street and Walton Way in Augusta...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/local-business/2013-05-14/work-underw
Augusta to pay fines for underground tank violations

...week.According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, there are about 584,000 underground tanks nationwide that store petroleum or hazardous substances, including 29,315 in Georgia.The greatest potential threat from a leaking underground...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-04-30/augusta-pay-fines-underground
Retail giants begin to spin off smaller, less-costly stores

...the Village at Furys Ferry shopping center on the corner of Furys Ferry and Evans-to-Locks roads. Food Lion closed that store about a year ago.Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the head of Walmart's U.S. Division, Bill...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/your-business/2013-03-15/thinking-out
Correcting the wrong money lessons

...thinks that poor people shop at a certain store, shop at that store sometimes. Even better, shop at a consistent store and explain exactly why you shop at that store. It's not enough to just walk the walk for a little...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/content/blog-post/simpledollar/2013-01-02/correctin
Savannah River Site not concerned by leak at other site

...secondary wall. "It was all contained inside," he said.Hanford's 177 waste tanks include 28 double-shell tanks that store waste moved from single-wall tanks found to be leaking, according to the Tri-City Herald in Washington. By comparison...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-10-30/savannah-river-site-not-conce
Retailers' strong October sales could hurt the holiday shopping season

...closed."From a few days before the storm until now we're moving in trucks all the time with products to make sure that stores stay replenished," said spokeswoman Paula Drake.Officials at Macy's, a New York-based chain that generates...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2012-11-01/retailers-strong-october-s
Workers acted shamefully

...husband, and thanked him for his service and her for her service to him.I will be shopping elsewhere, and not at that store anymore. I could not believe that they have no more personnel to assist the customers who need help the most. No one...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/letters/2012-12-05/workers-acted-shamefully
Convenience store owner, employees arrested in connection with synthetic marijuana

...with possession of a Schedule I drug with intent to distribute. At least 30 of the more than 400 packages seized from that store were confirmed to be synthetic marijuana. The rest was sent to the GBI Crime Lab for analysis.The searches, Morris...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2012-07-06/convenience-store-owne
BullChicks to reopen under Texas management

...the quality of the food, the equipment and the upkeep inside the store," Kassam said. "The franchisor is taking that store back, so they're in the process of renovating it, retraining the staff."The restaurant is tentatively scheduled...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/local-business/2012-06-22/bullchicks-
Transportation tax is the right thing to do

...delivers purchases on our streets; and even walkers and bicyclists go to a store where products they buy were brought to that store in a vehicle using the roadways. DO THE RIGHT thing, and recognize that every citizen depends on having a quality transportation...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/opinion-columns/2012-07-22/transportation-t