Obama wants community college to be free
By Katie Lobosco   @KatieLobosco January 8, 2015: 7:38 PM ET

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/08/pf/college/obama-free-college/index.html?sr=fb010815obamacollegefree7pStoryLink

This concept is grand as all should be entitled to a degreed occupation but there should be a mandatory service component whereas you give back to your community with the free earned skill set.

The program will be modeled after one in Tennessee, in which the state covers the cost of community college tuition for students that’s not already covered for them by grants and scholarships. It also requires the student to have a mentor, perform 8 hours of community service per term, as well as maintain a 2.0 GPA.

I presume these veggie burgers are fried in beef grease so you can enjoy the more calories than a beef slider! Just give me extra pickles on my beef slider please!

So this new veggie slider at 150 and 270 calories, with customers able to choose from three sauces — honey mustard, ranch and sweet Thai. The regular beef Sliders range between 140 and 220 calories, depending on the topping, according to White Castle’s website.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2014/12/31/white-castle-veggie-slider

Yep, I agree.  Really the only benefit is knowing that your item is safe at a store waiting for you than waiting in a package outside your door when you are not home.

By Deepa Seetharaman

REUTERS  •  Tuesday December 30, 2014 8:14 PM

SAN FRANCISCO — Major U.S. retailers including Target Corp. and Toys ’R Us have begun allowing shoppers to collect online purchases at their brick-and-mortar stores, but a study shows the option often saves little, if any, time over in-store shopping.

According to a small study released today by retail-intelligence firm StellaService, in-store pickup saved shoppers just 96 seconds on average compared with searching for items on their own. In a few cases, in-store pickup took longer.

In-store pickup is one of many services being tested as retailers try to use their stores as mini-shipping hubs to get items to shoppers more quickly. It comes in response to competition from the No. 1 U.S. online retailer, Amazon.com Inc , which has streamlined its delivery service.

The StellaService study, based on 44 visits to stores in the South run by 11 retailers, is one of the most comprehensive studies so far of the in-store pickup service. The results show that retailers have no uniform approach to the issue.

“It’s amazing just how much simpler the process would have been if someone had just put up a sign,” said Ty McMahan, senior director of content for StellaService, adding that retailers are spending “tens of millions of dollars” on these initiatives.

Shoppers spent an average of five minutes and 24 seconds in a store when trying to pick up their online orders. Those who did not use the in-store pickup feature spent an average of seven minutes in the store, according to the study.

But in-store pickup saved just 30 seconds at Target and Toys ’R Us. At Macy’s Inc., StellaService shoppers were not quite sure where to go. In-store pickup took eight minutes and 30 seconds, while those who walked in spent five minutes at a Macy’s store.

By contrast, in-store pickup took only two minutes at Office Depot Inc., compared with four minutes for those who walked in.

Home Depot Inc. and Nordstrom Inc. were the only other retailers that were slower at in-store pickup.

Nordstrom said one of the reasons it offers in-store pickup for online items is to guarantee customers that it will be there for them if they make a visit to the store. “We are always looking at ways to improve the service for our customers,” Nordstrom spokeswoman Brooke White said.

In-store pickup saves little time, small study concludes.