season? it really is like an orchestra, and we are the conductors in the supply chain in the middle. reporter: where do supermarkets do their shopping? for giant eagle, it s here at their main distribution center in craftton, pennsylvania. in this building we ship 457,000 cases of product to giant eagle stores weekly. reporter: 14-acre warehouse swarming with robotic carts and forklifts. every day the stores send their orders in, we select that product, ship it out to the stores, and in the produce world, we basically empty the building every day. you know, the science of inventory management has gotten so fine, so brilliant, richard, that the wastage at most modern supermarkets today is less than 5%. when you think about the volume of food coming in going out every single day the average
were called in, anyway, so was the fbi. that item contained a cell phone and paperwork, so all clear at jfk, late last night. martha: back up to dulles, let s take a back to us, let s look at the numbers of americans filing claims. last week, 457,000 people applied for jobless benefits, that is an increase. analysts now saying that that number, and they vary on this, but it needs to be at least below 430,000 to signal any actual job growth in the economy, so that s a long way to go. bill: in the meantime we have a dramatic rev up, the government saying it will sink $600 billion into government bonds in a hope to increase consumer spending and investment and start a chain reaction of creating jobs. da dagan mcdowell, good morning, i think they call it the hale mare hail mary pass. that s what the federal
unhappy kids in san francisco. oh, yes, one unintend end consequence, people who want to get these things for their kids, you can drive outside san francisco and get the traditional happen happy meal. jon. jon: good to know. thank you. jenna: take a drive for that toy, right, jon. jon: that s for sure. jenna: you can get, by the way a free burger kaoeupbg is burger king is giving out cups of coffee every friday morning in november. they say the freebie is meant to boost breakfast business. jon, less people are going to work, which means less people are drive to work which means less people are buying fast food breakfastess. that s part of why they are doing this. jon: i m sure they ll see a lot of traffic. the number of folks seeking jobless benefits jumping sharply last week. the labor department says unemployment claims rose 20,000, the adjusted number 457,000. this on the day before the october jobs reports comes out. economists projecting a net
going back to the senate. alisyn: interesting. brian: i appreciate it. we ll talk to you soon. alisyn: thank you. we do have a fox business alert for you because the labor department is releasing the weekly jobless claims right now. 457,000 new unemployment claims were filed last week. that is more than economists anticipated. they were expecting 443,000 claims. that s about 20,000 more than last week. your thoughts? eric: we do this every week. 450,000 initial jobless claims, that means new people looking for unemployment benefits. that s bad for the economy to be producing jobs, that number has to be 350, 300,000 or less. that tells you it s producing jobs. this one is still hemorrhaging jobs so that a bad news thing. brian: you got to break this down. we hear the fed will pump in $600 million worth of treasury bonds. they re going to be buying
the case. listen. rizzo and the others are accused of misappropriating at least $5.5 million. the complaint alleges they used the tax dollars collected from the hard-working citizens of bell as their own piggy bank, which they then looted at will. we should note the attorney general jerry brown who is running for governor has now frozen the pensions of those city leaders pending the owng o- outcome of this case, shep. shepard: the other go getter was police chief. randy adams was making $457,000 per year which by the way is more than the new york city police chief. chicago police chief. los angeles police chief. miami, on down the line. but even though his department only has 24 officers, he made that much money. now, the d.a. says they have 3,000 pages of documents and evidence and there is no evidence that adams committed a crime. listen. being paid excessive salaries is not a crime.