Activities Leader Katie Rivers says the joint's most popular field trip is the bus excursion to the 99-cent store, followed by jaunts to Target and the movie theater.

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Our big-buck teams are playing 99 Cent Store ball.

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He stopped to purchase a seventeen-cent pair of zoris at a store.

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It is no wonder merchants are feeling frustration and anger that their stores are being considered as little more than showrooms by some shoppers -- showrooms displaying merchandise that, if the people wandering the aisles go home and buy from an online vendor, will provide not a cent in revenue to the owner of the real store.

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The 99-cent app already has become the No. 1 paid app in the Apple store.

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Listeners no longer had to drive to their neighborhood record store (remember those?) to buy that new album by Norah Jones or 50 Cent.

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