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But the world's number-one cigarette maker is having a hard time finding Congressional backers for its plan.

A jury awards $3 billion to smoker in a California lawsuit.

Online applications and services will support convenience store operations.

Two Massachusetts retailers have their tobacco permits suspended after selling to minors.

Tests for cashless purchases now available at more units in Chicago, New York and California.

Analysts once raised red flags warning that online convenience stores and Internet grocers could grow to be the next big threat to brick-and-mortar retailers. A year later, however, it's the online retailers that are scrambling for survival.

Oil conglomerate also close to selling off three refineries.

With the petroleum business slowly returning to normal in Europe, retailers in the United States expressed concern that aggressive consumer behavior demonstrated overseas could be an ominous sign of things to come this winter if fuel prices keep rising.