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One of the Fastest Growing Grocery Stores.

As of December 2010, Hy-Vee operates 207 supermarkets, 24 drugstores, 1 heartland pantry, and 17 clinic pharmacies in eight states.^[2] Over 100 of its supermarkets are located in Iowa, with additional stores in Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota,Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and now Madison, Wisconsin. They also operate 26 Hy-Vee Drugstores (formerly branded as DrugTown) in Iowa and Nebraska. Hy-Vee also operates liquor stores under the names Regal Liquors and Hy-Vee Wine & Spirits.

Most Hy-Vee stores are full-service supermarkets with bakeries, delicatessens, banks, florists, pharmacies, and coffee shops (Caribou Coffee and Starbucks). To keep pace with Wal-Mart's recent expansion into the gas station business, Hy-Vee has also added gas stations with convenience stores to some of its properties. Customers are often given a discount of several cents per gallon of gas when their grocery receipt is shown, the discount can often run between three cents a gallon, to as much as sixteen cents a gallon, depending on the day.

Hy-Vee is known for its longtime advertising slogan, "Where there's a helpful smile in every aisle". When the jingle became a full song in the '90's, the music was written by Annie Meacham and James Poulsen. The slogan was adopted for Hy-Vee's first television commercial in 1962.

Two-time National Football League MVP, three-time Super Bowl player Kurt Warner once stocked shelves at a Hy-Vee store in Cedar Falls, Iowa. After being cut by the Green Bay Packers at age 24, he thought his football career might be over and worked there to cover bills.

Hy-Vee's largest store is located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which has over 100,000 square feet (9,300 m²) of retail space in the store.

The company's name is a combination of the last names of the two founders, Charles Hyde, and David Vredenburg (Take the first two letters of Hyde's name, the V from Vredenburg, and add a double E to the end, and you have the company name Hy-Vee).

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Tonight is the Ncaa Basketball National Championship! Watch it only on CBS at 9:23 Eastern Time 8:23 Central Time. Butler vs. UConn. Who will win?

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A 3D Satellite Latop? Awesome!

Toshiba's 3D monocle may have been a joke, but what you're looking at above is not. It's one of the latest additions to its 3D Satellite lineup, now growing to include the P770 and P775 3D. Both include massive 18.4-inch displays that clock in at 120Hz, enabling use of NVIDIA active-shutter glasses -- which you'll have to find a spot for in your laptop bag. Dual webcams in the bezel let you add a little depth to your video calls, while the HDMI output can manage depth-enabled content too. There's a re-writeable Blu-ray drive and what's sure to be a massive price tag to match, though that part has yet to be confirmed by Toshiba. We don't have a release date just yet either.

3DS is Here!

See that greenish blue thing up there? That might look like this greenish blue thing over here that we reviewed a few weeks back, but actually they're not the same. No, sir. This thing up there is the genuine, guaranteed, red-blooded American version, ready to tear a $250 hole in your gaming budget and make you go all googly-eyed for 3D. Naturally there isn't an awful lot different here compared to the Japanese version we already looked at, but we have had the opportunity to spend a good bit more quality time with this one than with the other one. Plus, being able to read all the manuals doesn't hurt.

What you'll find below is a full review of the American console including more game impressions, more in depth battery life tests, a dazzling demo of the thing's augmented reality gameplay, and some surpring performance results with good 'ol DS carts. So, join us, if you would, for a rather more in depthexploration of this, the next dimension in handheld console gaming.