jerky reached about $1.2 billion

s plenty of pride over the efforts among those who gathered for Thursday’s going-away.e surveyed as they entered or left eight grocery stores, Stephanie Scafa, a city zero waste analyst, told the council on Wednesday. Fifty-four percent of the 173 shoppers said the ban had Chanel outletled them to bring bags to the store more often than they had before the ban, she said. Thirty-five percent of respondents said the ban hadn’t changed their habits, Scafa said, with 11 percent of the shoppers saying they had brought bags to the store before the ban took effect. The bottom line: The ban appears to be getting more people to use reusable shopping bags, Scafa said.market: It sells for $3.56 an ounce on the company’s website; Golden Island costs $2.33 an ounce on its website. Jacks Link’s, the market leader made by closely held Link Snacks Inc., sells for $1.61 an ounce on Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s website.

 U.S. retail sales of beef jerky reached about $1.2 billion in the past year in measured store channels, according to IRI, a Chicago-based market researcher. More than half of those sales were by Jack Link’s. Kingmade isn’t the only jerky with golf connections. Brian Levin, the brother of David Duval’s caddie, Ron “Bambi” Levin, created Denver-based Perky Jerky in 2007. “In terms of waste reduction, which was the purpose of this ordinance, we believe it was effective,” she told councilors. Retailers also were surveyed about the ban, including whether they thought the minimum 5-cent charge for paper bags encouraged people to bring bags to the store. The 144 retailers who responded were evenly split on the answer to that “This is one that worked well for both countries — not easy to achieve,”

said Rick Shannon, president of Atlantic Ro-Ro Louis Vuitton mini linCarriers, which operates the Atlantic Navigator. The ship is under the command of Roman Elokhin, a Russian sea dog with a full head of white hair, and in addition to the 60 tons of uranium canisters, it is carrying the usual load of aluminum, steel and containers. In early December, it will call at Rukert Terminals in Baltimore, across the water from Fort McHenry. The uranium, last loaded, will be first to go ashore. Then it will be taken to one of three plants to be fabricated into usable fuel. “The North Atlantic in winter, it gets a little bit hairy out there,” Shanno