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Dollar General Puts In Blind-Friendly POS Equipment

Published on December 10, 2008 at 13:20:32 EST

Discount retailer Dollar General is installing new point of sale (POS) equipment designed to protect the financial privacy of visually impaired shoppers.

The project is the result of collaboration between the company and two non-profit organizations: the American Council of the Blind and the American Foundation for the Blind.

Thanks to the tactile keys on the standard telephone keypad, anyone...
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Walgreens Begins Selling Over-the-Counter Paternity Tests

Published on October 22, 2008 at 14:18:46 EST

Walgreens is selling over-the-counter paternity kits in 4,875 stores - about one-third of the total retail locations where it is available, Identigene, the company that makes the kits, announced.

Over 60,000 units of the Identigene DNA Paternity Test kits have been sold since they were first offered in a retail storefront in Nov. ‘07. Walgreens will sell them in the family planning or home...
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