A variety store or a price-point retailer in Kennewick is a retail store that sells inexpensive items, often with a single price for all items in the store. Typical merchandise includes cleaning supplies, toys, household goods, and gardening equipment. Other variety store products include cooking supplies, small tools, personal hygiene supplies, kitchen supplies, organizational supplies, office supplies, holiday decorations, electronics supplies, home d�cor, novelties, pet supplies, out of print books, DVDs, food products and automotive supplies. Some items sold at a certain price point would cost that much anyway, whereas other items offer a substantially lower price than usual.

Frankenveggies and the Monsanto Protection Act

  Buried in the recently-passed  HR 933, a spending bill designed to prevent the shutdown of the United States government on March 27, is section 735, a provision that should have everyone who consumes commercially-grown food in this country up in arms and contacting his or her Congressional representatives. Officially titled the Farmer Assurance Provision but popularly called the “Monsanto Protection Act,”..