From WBEZ in Chicago, Jody Becker has more on what winter's discontent has wrought. Some growers are already in the fields with smudge pots and wind machines, hoping to keep what fruit that's still viable, warm enough to pick and sell. It's a cold and potentially costly surprise after what so far had been an unseasonably mild winter for most farmers. Up to 15 percent of the lemon crop could still be lost. Now the nation's southeast is due for the same kind of drastic shift in temperatures.
Most retailers there say consumers shopped enthusiastically through the warm weather.
Bob Cashin is sales promotion director for 23 Belk Department stores in North and South Carolina and Georgia. In Chicago, I'm Jody Becker for Marketplace. In London today, British cabinet members quit, in a flap involving shady money deals. As Marketplace's Stephen Beard reports from London, this new blow to Prime Minister Tony Blair is raising questions about his government's relationship with business. He quit after details of a secret loan came to light.