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Cost Plus Pilots Food Sales at Select Bed Bath & Beyond Stores
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Cost Plus Pilots Food Sales at Bed Bath & Beyond

Hoping for a competitive edge over other top kitchen stores, Cost Plus World Market and Bed Bath & Beyond announced a partnership Friday that will bring the specialty import store's food products into select home goods stores.
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Cost Plus Bed Bath & BeyondHoping for a competitive edge over other top kitchen stores, Cost Plus World Market and Bed Bath & Beyond announced a partnership Friday that will bring the specialty import store's food products into select home goods stores.

Currently, the partnership is only in the select locations: San Diego, CA, Totowa, NJ, and Elmsford, NY, but who knows — it's entirely possible (in the same way Jamba Juice is hoping to branch out with frozen yogurt) that if successful, the partnership would expand nationwide.

This alliance could be just the push that both stores need to beat out other top kitchenwares and housewares competition. I'm gunning for it, as I love the international candy selection at Cost Plus and the exhaustive home goods of Bed Bath & Beyond. Do you think the partnership could work?

Source: Flickr Users roblisameehan and Jason McHuff

2009 Sugar Awards: Best Kitchen Store
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The Year's Top Kitchen Store

In continuation of our Best of 2009 coverage, we asked you about your favorite kitchen store of the past 12 months.
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In continuation of our Best of 2009 coverage, we asked you about your favorite kitchen store of the past 12 months. The vast majority of you — 58 percent — declared Cost Plus World Market tops, for its affordability during tough economic times.

Although we're also fans of the imported sundries sold at Cost Plus, we must respectfully beg to differ: for the second year in a row, we're naming Williams-Sonoma as 2009's best kitchen store. True, the California kitchenware company has partnered with us on some colossal giveaways this year. But more than that, it's been the source of many solid recipes, cocktail ideas, and, of course, covetable kitchen items. Tell us what you love about Williams-Sonoma, or your favorite kitchen store!

Happy Hour: Cab-ulous
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Happy Hour: Cab-ulous

I was at Cost Plus scoping out the after-Christmas-holiday candy, when a certain wine display caught my eye.
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I was at Cost Plus scoping out the after-Christmas-holiday candy, when a certain wine display caught my eye. These wines — named Cab-ulous, Chardon-Yeah!, and Zin-fatuation — looked fun, flirty, and appealing. I assumed you guys would be into them, yet I couldn't help but wonder if it was just a clever, marketing ploy.

To find out, I bought a bottle of the Cab-u-lous and brought it over to my friendly, wine-snob pal. I figured if anyone was going to give me a good opinion, it would be him. The vintage we had was a 2005; it was still pretty young and it showed. The wine barely stained the cork, and the smell was rather fruity, actually make that Kool-Aidy. The initial signs were not good, but we carried on and were pleasantly surprised. It wasn't an amazing wine, but it was only $10 and was smooth and easy to drink. As the wine snob said, "She's everyone's friend. No one is going to really dislike her. They might not have an opinion, but they won't hate her." I couldn't have put it better myself. No one will have a problem drinking this wine. It's nothing amazing, but it does have a clever label and would be a good, inexpensive purchase.

Also, it appears to be distributed by Trinchero Family Estates, however, I could not find it for sale online. If you do see them, don't pay too much, the bottles were $9.99 at Cost Plus.

Steal of the Day: Cost Plus World Market Star Lantern
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Steal of the Day: Cost Plus World Market Star Lantern

The Red Star Lantern (originally $19.99, on sale for $14.99) from Cost Plus World Market would look lovely hung in multiples on an ornament-covered porch or from the branches of a front-yard evergreen.
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The Red Star Lantern (originally $19.99, on sale for $14.99) from Cost Plus World Market would look lovely hung in multiples on an ornament-covered porch or from the branches of a front-yard evergreen. Illuminated from within by a tea light, the cutouts in this lantern will cast playful patterns along whatever interior or exterior landscape from which you choose to hang it.

In Case of Emergency Chocolate Bar
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In Case of Emergency Chocolate Bar

This Emergency Chocolate Bar is a little bit gimmicky (okay so it's a lot gimmicky), however you all know that there are those days where something like this would have been just enough to fix everything.
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This Emergency Chocolate Bar is a little bit gimmicky (okay so it's a lot gimmicky), however you all know that there are those days where something like this would have been just enough to fix everything. The label says, "For immediate relief of: Chocolate Cravings, Lovesickness, Exam Pressure, Mild Anxiety, and Extreme Hunger." They'd make a great gift, but I'm imagining them under glass with a "break in case of emergency" label on them. Maybe we can get them installed here at the Sugar HQ...

Available in milk or dark chocolate, each bar is 3.5 oz and is made with cocoa from Malaysia, sugar from Australia and milk from New Zealand. I've seen them at Cost Plus, but you can buy them online for $4.49 each.