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Why Alabama is home, sweet home to all that lost airport baggage
Nov 26, 2018

Why Alabama is home, sweet home to all that lost airport baggage

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Thinking you'll have a leg up on those Cyber Monday deals because you're shopping on your phone? So are a lot of other people. Italy seems to be getting its act together, and the markets are noticing. And what happens to all that luggage lost at the airport?

Today's show is sponsored by Wasabi Hot Cloud Storagethe Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the Alliance for Lifetime Income.

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Unclaimed Baggage Center turns one person’s lost stuff into another’s bargain buy

Nov 26, 2018
Some unique finds: A Christmas sweater with two neck holes, antlers, a taxidermied frog.
Shoppers at the Unclaimed Baggage Center shortly after doors opened at 8am. 
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Thinking you’ll have a leg up on those Cyber Monday deals because you’re shopping on your phone? So are a lot of other people. Italy seems to be getting its act together, and the markets are noticing. And what happens to all that luggage lost at the airport?

Today’s show is sponsored by Wasabi Hot Cloud Storagethe Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the Alliance for Lifetime Income.