39,000 Number of sampling events in Sam's Club, weekly 68.5 Percentage of customers who buy item after sampling 200 Percentage rise in impulse buys at the most successful Sweetbay Supermarket sampling events $16 Average hourly wage samplers can make with some companies $2 billion Annual retailer and manufacturer investment for in-store sampling 11,200 People employed as samplers by Sam's Club Sources: Sweetbay Supermarket, Wal-Mart Stores, Mass Connections, Supermarket News, Promotion Marketing Association ...more

October 20, 2007

Charles Briggs will be the guest speaker at next week's meeting of the Plant City Woman's Club. ...more

October 6, 2007

Jim Pollard, Annie Mae Thompson Robinson's son, says his mom partied hearty for two days recently to celebrate her 99th birthday. ...more

September 24, 2007

Lake Walden Square in Plant City has a new owner, but a spokesman says there's nothing to announce on the center's shuttered movie theater. ...more

September 14, 2007

Tracey Alderman's Orient Road Jail mug shot from 1996 shows a freckle-faced teen with a frightened expression under a head of thick red hair. He was 18. ...more

September 14, 2007

SEFFNER - Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies arrested a man in a parking lot after a kidnapping and attempted bank robbery this evening. Tracey Alderman, 29, was then shot during an escape attempt during questioning at the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office District 2 office. ...more

September 13, 2007