Feb 26, 2021

Is it wrong to miss a store?

"It was this magical wonderland where pretty much everything with a power cord was on sale," said Parker Hall, a product reviewer for Wired. David McNew/Newsmakers

What these disappearing features of the American landscape mean to us. And, Texas weather may be back in the mid-70s, but the people there are still dealing with effects of the deep freeze, including interruptions at grocery stores.

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Texas' ag industry faces hundreds of millions in losses after deep freeze

by Andy Uhler

Feb 26, 2021

And those hits ripple through to grocery stores, where there are still some limits on buying things like milk and eggs.

Dairy farmers had to dump 14 million gallons of milk because they couldn’t get it to processing plants. A lot of poultry farmers lost power for days and couldn’t get more fuel for their generators.

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Vanishing America

Why Fry's Electronics was more than a store to many

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon

Feb 26, 2021

The ailing tech store closed this week, devastating longtime fans.

"It was this magical wonderland where pretty much everything with a power cord was on sale," said Parker Hall, a product reviewer for Wired.

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David Brancaccio Host

Victoria Craig Host, BBC

Stephen Ryan Senior Producer, BBC

Jonathan Frewin Producer, BBC

Daniel Shin Producer

Jay Siebold Technical Director

Brian Allison Engineer

Meredith Garretson Morbey Senior Producer

Erika Soderstrom Producer

Rose Conlon Producer

Alex Schroeder Producer

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