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Stock Watchers See Bimbo as a Potential Buyer For Troubled Tasty Baking Co.; Italy Imposes a Nationwide Ban on Plastic Shopping Bags

• Stock watchers see Mexican-owned, PA-based Bimbo Bakeries USA as a potential buyer for cash strapped Tasty Baking Co. [Inquirer]

• First A&P; and now Acme: Supermarket chain plans to close five area locations. [KYW Newsradio]

• A record-breaking 745-pound fish was sold in Tokyo yesterday. Godzilla rolls all around! [Sun UK]

• Time to start wondering what’s in those burritos: After a drunken fight and stabbing incident, police arrived to find a man dead in the walk-in cooler of a Seattle Taco Bell. [Freep.com]

• Researchers in Scotland are trying to invent special plastic packaging that would change color when food is no longer fresh. Better sell off those stock shares in colored Saran wrap! [BBC]

• Now they tell us. That food-safety bill Obama just signed? It might cause prices to go up. [Times-Tribune]

• Starbucks has unveiled a new logo sans the company name. At 40 years old, we guess the business is entitled to a midlife crisis. [USAT]

• Brava: Italy is the first country to ban plastic shopping bags nationwide. [Greenbiz.com]

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