Note to Chase: O.J. Simpson is in prison! Try serving him at 1200 Prison Rd., Lovelock, Nevada. He’s been there since 2008!
After being found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman, Simpson was found liable for their deaths in a civil suit brought by the Brown and Goldman families.
In an effort to escape the $33 million judgment against him, O.J. bought a house near Miami in 2000 for $522,000, taking out a mortgage for $575,000.
Simpson was convicted on armed robbery and kidnapping charges in Nevada in 2008, and continued to make payments on the place until 2010.
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News October 27, 2001 By Renee Degross, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 27–FOOD LION EXPANDING PRESENCE IN GEORGIA: Just as Cub Foods closes stores in metro Atlanta, its majority owner Delhaize Group is expanding another of its grocery chains in Georgia.
But whether Food Lion, the subsidiary of Delhaize, makes a move in metro Atlanta remains to be seen.
Food Lion plans to open five stores next year in Brunswick, Jefferson, Alma, Reidsville and Pembroke.
Ruth Kinzey, a Food Lion spokeswoman, said the Peach State is an attractive market for the North Carolina-based chain.
“We definitely are expanding within Georgia,” Kinzey said.
One main reason Food Lion has not made a play in metro Atlanta, and only operates two stores on the distant fringes of the area, is because of its 60 percent stake in Cub Foods.
But Cub Foods will shut 17 area stores in metro Atlanta by Dec. 31. Kinzey did not comment on Food Lion’s future in metro Atlanta.
Kroger and Publix rule the area grocery domain with about 62 percent of market share between them. Beneath them, it has been a bloodbath in the grocery wars in recent years, with Bruno’s, A&P, Webvan, Harris Teeter and now Cub Foods biting the dust. this web site lenox square mall
Harry’s Farmers Market also is on its last legs. Whole Foods is set to complete a deal to buy Harry’s assets, distribution facilities, cooking commissary and three mega-stores, leaving four remaining Harry’s In A Hurry locations with uncertain futures.
“Atlanta is tough,” said BB&T Capital Markets analyst Andrew Wolf, “and it should be avoided.” PLAN FOR LENOX SQUARE RENAMING ON HOLD: Lenox Square mall may get to keep its name after all — at least for the foreseeable future.
Lenox Square’s owners, Simon Property Group, had hoped to hawk the glitzy mall’s naming rights, but no deals have surfaced since March, when Simon’s intentions first became known. here lenox square mall
Simon had hoped to sell the corporate naming rights for some $30 million over 10 years.
But the recessionary economy has kept many potential takers away; instead, they’re laying off workers.
Simon officials did not return phone calls.
EUROPEAN GROCERIES WAY AHEAD OF U.S.: Shoppers who love gadgets may find the best of both worlds coming to their nearest grocery store in the near future.
Grocers in the United States, including metro Atlanta, have added self-checkouts in the past two years. They’re also catching on in Wal-Mart and Kmart locations. But self-scanning devices, or hand-held scanners, put more power in the hands of consumers. Those devices lag their self-checkout counterparts.
Kmart will use self-scanners at holiday time, and some other local retailers are considering them. But grocers in Italy are already putting them to use.
Coop, a grocery store chain with stores in Italy, has a wall of scanners when you walk into its outlets. In the Coop in Empoli, for instance, customers insert their shopper cards in the scanner wall, which signals them to take a scanner and begin their excursion around the store.
In the end, the shopper hands the scanner to the checker, who downloads the total. After payment, the shopper bags or boxes the goods, and finito!
The process helps get shoppers out of the stores faster.
Analysts say it’s coming. However, like most things in retailing, it’s evolutionary … and sometimes slow.
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JP Morgan Chase has started the foreclosure process against O.J. Simpson’s Florida home, but there’s just one problem. According to court records, the bank’s process server has made repeated attempts to serve the former football great and actor at the house!
