Shoppers spent 11.4 percent less in April 2009 than in April 2008, and .4 percent less than they had in March, the Census Bureau reports. As a category, retail and food fell 10.1 percent from last year.
Which brings us to the news from San Jose. From the AP:
An office worker cleaning a fridge full of rotten food created a smell so noxious that it sent seven co-workers to the hospital and made many others ill.
Firefighters had to evacuate the AT&T building in downtown San Jose on Tuesday after the fumes led someone to call 911. A hazmat team was called in. What crews found was an unplugged refrigerator crammed with moldy food.
Here's our question: Were more people bringing lunch to work and trying to save on buying food out? But if that's true, then why were so many lunches left to rot?
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