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'Pay Your Age' Deal Ends in Chaos for Build-A-Bear

The all-too-enticing deal ended hours after it began

(Newser) - Build-A-Bear Workshop's almost-too-good-to-be-true "Pay Your Age" deal turned out to be just that. Or at least just too good. The shopping mall staple, which specializes in customized stuffed animals, offered shoppers a one-day-only deal: customers could buy the typically $20 to $35 items for a price matching their...

Righty Bloggers Bully Bear-Maker Into Submission
Righty Bloggers Bully Bear-Maker Into Submission
CLIMATE-CHANGE POLITICS

Righty Bloggers Bully Bear-Maker Into Submission

Build-A-Bear offends with cartoon about warming at North Pole

(Newser) - The politics of climate change has claimed another victim: a video series on the web site of toy outfit Build-A-Bear, in which cartoon animal characters described how global warming threatened Santa and his people at the North Pole. After conservative bloggers called for a boycott, the company is taking the...

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