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Today's Date: July 4, 2009

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Just a few of the news stories you'll find in our upcoming issues:

bullet A land sale on the west side of Eau Claire may soon be finalized.

bullet Three new businesses will be opening in the Chippewa Valley.

bullet An area grocery store will be remodeling.

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 News Flash

Mega acquires land along South Hastings

TBL has learned that Mega Management Inc., the parent company of Mega Foods grocery stores and six area Mega Express Holiday gas/convenience stores, has purchased the property at 1319 South Hastings Way, Eau Claire, from Advanced Gas, LLC, through a sheriff's sale. The property was previously occupied by a BP gas/convenience store.
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Bloss buys new PM Sleep Center buiding

TBL has learned that Mike Bloss, owner of PM Sleep Center, 923 W. Clairemont Ave., Eau Claire, will be purchasing the 40,000-square-foot former Leath Furniture building from Larsco, LLC, effective May 15th. Read more.



 Business Bits

Mega buys Holiday Station store from Wagner

TBL has learned that Mega Management Inc., the parent company of three Mega Foods grocery stores, area Mega Express Holiday gas/convenience stores as well as lube and oil operations, will acquire the Holiday Station store in the Village of Lake Hallie at 2750 120th St., Chippewa Falls, from Bob Wagner, effective May 7th.

Countryside Co-op to begin remodel in Durand

Countryside Cooperative, an agricultural service and product supply organization serving 22 western Wisconsin communties, has begun work on a major overhaul of its headquarters in Durand.

Rackable Systems to acquire SGI assets

Fremont,CA-based Rackable Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: RACK), a leading provider of servers and storage products for medium and large scale data centers, announced this week that it has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Silicon Graphics Inc. for approximately $25 million in cash.



 Editorial

Sears Credit Card Account

I had a negative experience with my Sears credit card account about six years ago. Just about the time that I started to begin trusting credit card companies, I received my April account statement - from Sears. Here is my story in letter form, since that is what I was advised to do from the polite gentleman who seemed to feel my pain when I called to inquire about an apparent billing error: Read more.


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