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The Powerful Companies Driving Local Drugstores Out of Business

The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy deserts” across the country.

By Reed Abelson and Rebecca Robbins

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What’s the Deal With All the Flags on the Jersey Shore?

One journalist, a resident of the beach town Avalon, N.J., wanted to find out.

By Michelle Gustafson for The New York Times

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Bacon, Banter and the Business of a Diner

“I try to make people feel good.” How one New Jersey diner keeps the doors open.

By Julia Rothman and Shaina Feinberg

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Farewell, Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band

A mainstay of the pizza and arcade chain, by turns endearing and creepy, will be phased out by year’s end at all but two locations. We visited one of them.

By Jesus Jimenez and Jackie Molloy