Sink your teeth into today's top stories from around the globe. Communal tables question whether we really love thy neighbor. – New York Post You've never sausage a sight! Dead Dog serves its wieners out of a coffin. – Mercury News Clean-up on aisle 12! The worst supermarkets in America. – The Fiscal Times A new batch of studies question whether the link between food deserts and obesity really exists. – New York Times While most couples end up bickering over linens in IKEA, one Maryland couple celebrated holy matrimony with the store's signature Swedish meatballs. – WJLA

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Box lunch: Communal tables and meatball vows

The phone is ringing at Melody Record Shop in Dupont Circle. Charlie Manning, a buyer and manager who has worked at Melody for 32 of its 34 years, answers. “Did you hear about everything? We’re closing the store.” Pause. “There’s a closing sign out front.” Read full article > >

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At Melody Record Shop, sadness and a tinge of guilt as an era ends

Union Hardware in Bethesda is 97 years old and has blue-collar roots. Founders Abraham and Jennie Goldberg chose the name “Union” because of the growing strength of labor unions at the time. Like many small businesses, over the years the store has lured customers away from big-box competitors with the folksy tagline, “It’s about service.” Read full article > >

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Bathrooms as art? How to save a business by going high-end

As expected, Apple has pulled iTether from the iOS App Store this morning  less than a day after its arrival . If anything, it’s a wonder that the $14.99 USB tethering app — which bypasses the operating system’s (and carrier’s) typical tethering and hotspot provisioning — managed to stay in the store for that long, especially considering the amount of press coverage it’s gotten since going live. For those of you who shelled out the $15, congratulations — you’ve got a bit of a collector’s item on your hands, assuming a future iOS update doesn’t break the functionality. For the rest of you, though: back to your standard tethering plans. Read full article > >

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LOS ANGELES — A woman shot pepper spray to keep shoppers from merchandise she wanted during a Black Friday sale, and 20 people suffered minor injuries, authorities said. The incident occurred shortly after 10:20 p.m. Thursday in a crowded Los Angeles-area Walmart as shoppers hungry for deals were let inside the store. Read full article > >

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UK gamers can no longer play PlayStation Store games they have bought on more than two devices.

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An armed robber burst into a Northeast Washington market, scuffled with the cashier, and then shot him and the clerk’s father, who also owned the store. The killer sped off in a silver Pontiac, but a witness was able to write down the license plate number. Police figured out the name of the suspect very quickly. But locating and arresting him took a little-known investigative tool: a vast system track of the comings and goings of anyone driving around the District. Read full article > >

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George Davis of Northeast Washington treks to Prince George’s County once a week to shop for groceries in District Heights. And at least once a month, James Royster, looking for discounts, gathers a group of seniors in his Southeast neighborhood to drive to another store in Oxon Hill. But on Thursday morning, the men were among a throng of residents who stood outside a recently built Aldi store in Northeast, waiting for city and Aldi officials to cut the ribbon on the company’s first market in the District. Read full article > >

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Grocery store openings boost underserved communities in D.C. region

Wal-Mart plans to open a store on Rockville Pike, the second new site the company has announced in Montgomery County in a month and one that is likely to inflame debate about whether county officials should enact new rules regarding big-box stores. Developer JBG Rosenfeld is finalizing a deal with Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest retailer, to open an 80,000-square-foot store in the Pike Center shopping plaza near the busy intersection of Rockville Pike and Twinbrook Parkway. The developer says construction would begin in fall 2012, and the store could open in late 2013 or early 2014. Read full article > >

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ARBUTUS, Md. — Authorities in Maryland say two women threw bleach and another chemical on each other during a fight at a Walmart, prompting officials to evacuate the store for two hours and call in a hazardous materials team. Fire officials say 19 people had to be taken to hospitals, although only one was thought to have serious injuries. That person was taken to the Wilmer Eye Institute with a potentially serious eye injury. Read full article > >

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Marks and Spencer will “consider all options” as the store group is lobbied over the planned closure of a store in a seaside resort.

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A 33-year-old man is charged with starting a fire which destroyed the Reeves Furniture Store in Croydon.

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The computer giant Apple Inc. agreed Wednesday to remove an application called the “The 3rd Intifada” from its popular App Store for iPads and iPhones.

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Amazon opened its app store for Android smartphones on midnight Tuesday-and Apple isn’t too happy about it. Apple filed suit against Amazon, saying the online retailer has improperly used its “App Store” trademark. Apple applied to register the “App…

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Apple Sues Amazon

Until a couple weeks ago, J.C. Penney was popping up as the No. 1 search result for a bunch of Google searches. For a search for “Samsonite carry on luggage,” it came in ahead of Samsonite.com. This was because the store had allegedly hired a company…

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