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Tammy Baggio Accused of Really Elaborate Sam's Club Theft Scheme In Seven States

It would appear that Tammy Baggio, 39, had a pretty clever scheme to make money off of Sam's Club stores throughout the Midwest, involving switched containers, pet products and eBay. It was, however, not quite clever enough to last very long. So say the federal authorities that have formally accus ... More >>

Small Glass Fragments in Lean Cuisine Ravioli, Plastic in Fast Classics Country-Fried Steaks

We have a When Food Attacks two-fer this morning. First, Nestle Prepared Foods Company on Friday announced (via the FDA) a voluntary recall of its Lean Cuisine Culinary Collection Mushroom Mezzaluna Ravioli -- no, really, that's the product's full name -- after three customers complained that the ra ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From December 10 to 16

And now a Public Service Announcement from RFT Music: It's wintertime, folks, and you know what that means: It's cold! And as we all know, in the cold, everything dies. The trees, the bugs, at least one ill-prepared bird I found in my side yard -- and most important for the purposes of this post: t ... More >>

Stan Kroenke: 92nd Wealthiest American and 10th Largest Landowner

The owner of the St. Louis Rams is making news this week, but not for anything regarding the uncertain future of his football franchise.

Put Down That Dried Bream, Friend -- It Wants to Kill You

Albert Pujols will always play first base for the Cardinals. Today will always defeat Good Morning America in the ratings. Your dried bream will always be properly eviscerated and botulism-free. No, it hasn't been a good year for the eternal verities. Via the FDA comes an announcement from Euphori ... More >>

Remember that Walmart Shake and Bake Meth Lady? She's Been Busted Again.

Jennifer Vaughn, 32, was the woman who caused a Walmart to shut down for several hours on June 7 when police who busted her for shoplifting discovered what they believe to be a shake and bake meth lab cooking in her purse. Last night South County police were called out to a U-Mart gas station on Tel ... More >>

Cheetos Nachos Sold in Texas Convenience Store, Sign Gut Check Up

Last week Gut Check was so enamored with the news that Subway was test marketing Doritos nachos at select locations inside Wal-Mart stores nationwide that we recreated the dish for taste test purposes. The next day a tipster informed us that several Subway restaurants housed in St. Louis Wal-Mart st ... More >>

Walmart Shoplifter Also had Meth Cooking in Her Purse

Stop me if you've heard this one before: A shoplifter, a meth cook and a dumb-ass all walk into a Walmart -- and they're all the same woman. A woman not yet identified by police was caught shoplifting in the Walmart at Telegraph Road and Interstate 255 last night around 6 p.m. Police were called, an ... More >>

Subway's Doritos Nachos Available in St. Louis

When Gut Check learned yesterday that Subway is test-marketing nachos made with Doritos, we couldn't wait to try them -- in fact, we were so excited that we bought chips, Cheez Whiz and jalapeños to make some for ourselves. Turns out we didn't have to wait. An operative passed along word this mor ... More >>

Man Beat 3-Year Old to Death, Blames it on Hit-and-Run Driver

​Out in Morgan County, Missouri, between Jefferson City and Sedalia, police were faced with an easily-solved puzzle. They'd been called to the scene of a hit-and-run driver on Highway 135, where Blake Litton, 3, had allegedly darted into the road and been killed by truck around 5:10 a.m. on Thursd ... More >>

Occupy St. Louis "Hijacks" Walmart, Macy's; Police Captain Explains Tactics

​Forcibly evicted from downtown's Kiener Plaza, Occupy St. Louis has taken its protest to area department stores. Yesterday afternoon, roughly 30 Occupiers held a meeting outside Macy's at the Galleria. Later, a few "mic-checked" -- using their collective voices as a human megaphone to shout anti- ... More >>

Wiener Whistles For All This Weekend

Image viaHotdogger Brian Keefe.​If you're in need of a Wiener Whistle (aren't we all?), this weekend is your chance to get one. The iconic Oscar Mayer Wienermobile will be making a pit stop in St. Louis for two appearances: Friday, September 9, at the Wal-Mart in Fenton, and Saturday, Septembe ... More >>

Def Leppard Baby Food To Go With Your Def Leppard Lullabies

So, this exists.​We were the proud recipients of the latest entry in the Rockabye Baby! franchise, which turns classic (read: geriatric) rock into lullabies for, you guessed it, babies. This one renders Def Leppard in vibraphones and vibraslaps, which on principle has to be one of the last thi ... More >>

Spirits of St. Louis Aquavit, Square One Brewery and Distillery

Image Via​What do the countries of Scandinavia have in common? For one thing, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland are some of the happiest places on Earth. Every time a new study comes out attempting to quantify "life satisfaction," these countries hold court in the top ten, trading off the nu ... More >>

Cooking With Aunt Claudette: St. Louis' Very Own YouTube Kitchen Sensation

While everyone's been going ape shit over My Drunk Kitchen and Vegan Black Metal Chef, there's a local video cooking star waiting to be discovered. It took a post about deep-fried Kool-Aid to bring Claudette to Gut Check's attention. She had a strong reaction to the new fair treat: .bbpBox8287780 ... More >>

Mr. Ghetto's "Wal-Mart" Is The Official Party Jam Of Nihilist Defamiliarization

Mr. Ghetto's hype man deconstructs social norms in the parking lot of a Super Wal-Mart​​There was a time in my life, I think--back when the end of the world was a week from now, and not tomorrow--when I found dancing ladies pleasant, maybe even erotic. I remember it now as one might reme ... More >>

Stand-Up Kyle Kinane: "Poison Oak Made Me the Creepiest Guy at Wal-Mart"

Stand-Up Kyle Kinane, pre-poison oak​Bellowing out his gravelly goofball musings onstage, comedian Kyle Kinane doesn't always sound at ease. But when this native of the Chicago suburbs arrives at the Firebird on Wednesday night, he'll be feeling even more uncomfortable than usual...Daily RFT: What ... More >>

Eat Your Veggies. Just Not These.

Wikimedia CommonsThese beets won't kill you. Yet. ​Beets are so often maligned that it's hard to imagine that they're pickled and processed in 105-ounce cans. Who knew there was such a pickled beet demand? Well, that demand's going to go unmet for a bit. Lakeside Foods Inc. of Manitowoc, Wis ... More >>

St. Louis In the Running For $1 Million from Wal-Mart

Yep, it's a total gimmick.​Yep, it's coming from Wal-Mart, the company we all love to hate.But still. If you "like" Wal-Mart's Fighting Hunger Together program on Facebook, St. Louis could win ... One Million Dollars! (Cue Dr. Evil laugh!) To help fight hunger!So just click "like" already. Right n ... More >>

Free Aveda Massages at St. Louis Galleria Today

Don't you feel better already?​Black Friday shopping got you ... stressed?Today only, the Aveda Experience Center in the St. Louis Galleria is offering free head, neck, shoulder and scalp massages, says spokeswoman Kelly Plummer. No need to make an appointment; the Aveda staffers are offering the ... More >>

When Criminals Imitate the "People of Walmart"

Police describe the suspect as "heavy set" and bald with some bad tattoos on his forearm.​St. Louis County police are looking for the man pictured here in connection with the theft and fraudulent use of a credit card stolen from a vehicle in October. The suspect later used the credit card to purch ... More >>

Gut Check's Week in Tweets

​Don't you know? Gut Check has a Twitter account. You can follow us @gutcheckstl.Here's some of what you missed on the Twitter feed this week: Walmart Sandwiches Recalled http://bit.ly/b9v31V ...and here I was looking forward to having an egg-salad sandwich from Walmart...

Walmart Sandwiches Recalled

Deli meat used in Walmart sandwiches recalled for possible listeria contamination. Food Safety News reports that Zemco from Buffalo, New York, has recalled over 380,000 pounds of meat. None of the meat was sold as retail product; it was all used for Walmart's Marketside Grab and Go Sandwiches. Par ... More >>

Missouri Poised to Lead Nation in Meth Lab Busts For Fourth Straight Year

Courtesy of the Missouri State Highway PatrolMissouri busted 1,776 meth labs last year and we're on pace for more than 1,800 in 2010.​Missouri has already done the three-peat -- leading the nation in meth lab seizures for three consecutive years, including a whopping 1,774 busts last year, nearly ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

​This week was all about drive-through dining. While Hardee's added some extra protein to its biscuits & gravy and Burger King announced a brunch menu is in the works, Dunkin' Donuts is now going to sell its swill in Russia. All this just as the KFC Doub ... More >>

RFT readers have nostalgia for Northwest Plaza, hope for Larry Burgan and Doug Lindsay

Mall-Walkers Rally to Save Northwest Plaza

When Northwest Plaza opened in St. Ann in 1963, it was the largest shopping center in the world with five anchor department stores and 185 smaller shops, restaurants and boutiques. Centrally located near the confluence of I-70 and I-270, it was one of the area's biggest employers. Kids from all over ... More >>

Does the Holiday Spirit Involve Shoplifting?

The Associated Press reported yesterday:Parish priest Tim Jones says it's OK to shoplift at times as long as you don't take more than you need - but British police, retailers and clergy disagree. Jones says people in desperate need may at times be justified shoplifting items from large chain stores ... More >>

And Now for 5 Black Friday Videos That Will Make You Want to Shop Online

Ah, the rush of finding deals! The thrill of getting discounts! The exhilaration of putting your thumb in the eye of somebody over the last flat-screen television.Here are some of the more popular documentaries found on YouTube from Black Friday. The first video is the awful one you may remember fro ... More >>

Last Week's Most-Read Posts, August 24-30, 2009

The scandal involving former Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith kept readers' attention all last week. Here's a rundown of the most-clicked-on headlines, August 24-30, here at the Daily RFT.America F*** Yeah: Chesterfield Hummer Dealership Also Sells Assault Rifles  The Postcards That Brought Do ... More >>

The Best of Gut Check: The Snoopy Snow Cone Machine, or A Boy and His Dream - A Photo Essay

While Gut Check is on vacation, enjoy highlights from the past two years.In this week's review of area snow-cone stands, I mention my childhood obsession with the Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine. This toy, first manufactured in the late 1970s, seemed the ideal summer activity: Make your own icy treat and -- ... More >>

Rock Math: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Greatest Hits

(Welcome to Rock Math, where each week Ryan Wasoba will explain a newly released album with the aid of a mathematical equation.) Band: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Album: Greatest Hits Label: Columbia (available exclusively at Wal-Mart) Equation: Equation of an Ellipse ... More >>

Snow Cone Week: The Snoopy Snow Cone Machine, or A Boy and His Dream - A Photo Essay

Bryan Adams plays songs from his new album, 11, (and plenty of hits!) on Monday night at the Sheldon — acoustic!

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 7.3

Today's Food News

Daily Web Crawl

Our top DVD picks for the week of November 15

Letters

Week of July 6, 2005

Film Openings

Week of March 2, 2005

Dawn of the Diaz

Bill Haas trumps other Blog o' the Week possibilities, a white supremacy group loses its power (literally), and we wonder if Hotel Rwanda is OK for kids; plus, everybody loves Einar!

Well, Where Have You Been Grocery Shopping These Last Three Weeks?

Week of November 5, 2003

Slopping Spree

Two curators take a circular approach to art

Wal-Mart World

Callow's handiwork in Maplewood may spell money trouble for the city

The Shame of Our City

Week of November 14, 2001

EYE OF THE NEEDLE

Kellwood's taking fashion forward by making virtually all our clothes in the Third World. But the St. Louis giant carefully cloaks its operations, its plant locations and its monitoring of labor conditions.

Greasing the Skids

Unicom takes flak over flacking for Wal-Mart

ERROR CONDITIONING

Righting the wrongs of Post columnist Greg Freeman