FYI: Hug Your Customer
• Hamas raided a UN warehouse in Gaza last night, taking 3,500 blankets and 400 food parcels meant for needy Gazans. [AP]
• One food bank in Texas, facing increased demand and decreased donations, has taken matters into its own hands by starting a vegetable garden. [Dallas Morning News]
• If you'd like to get a sense of what Denny's was like yesterday, check out this Trib feature in which a reporter visited five different Denny's and got a free meal at each one. [Chicago Tribune]
• New York restaurants are "hugging their customers" with dining deals and "extreme solicitousness tinged with outright desperation." [NYT]
• Looks like those grocery store loyalty cards are good for something other than getting deals; stores with loyalty programs are contacting customers who bought possibly salmonella-tainted peanut products by telephone to warn them of the risk. [US News & World Report]
