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Neurons synthesize acetylcholine from choline, which is obtained from the diet, and from acetyl groups that originate in mitochondria from the metabolism of sugar. Here is yet another example of the importance of sugar for your brain s normal function. The synthesis of acetylcholine occurs within the cytoplasm of your neurons, and the product is stored in synaptic vesicles, those small round packets that neurons release to communicate with each other. Neurons pay a lot of attention to the shelf life of their neurotransmitters they prefer to release the most recently produced neurotransmitter molecules first. As you can see, neurons do not behave like your local grocer they do... 

Many consumers have had the experience of returning flour to the grocer because it was heavily infested with mites. These mites are small (less than 1 mm) and usually whitish and oceur in a wide variety of foods. They have come to be known under such common names as cheese mites, flour mites, the bulb mite, and the dried fruit mite. They also are found in smoked and dried meats and fish. 

When I was six, I took a small comic book stuck to a cereal box in our neighborhood grocery from the box, hid it in my pocket, and took it home. My father found it, asked where I got it, and made me take it back to the grocer and apologize. 

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Ramzy et al. (2011) compared the Egyptian retail sector to the American and European retail sector and mentioned that small grocers and independent stores dominated the grocery market in the past and they were the primary source of products. However, today the large store format dominates the USA and Europe as supermarkets and hypermarkets take the majority of market share. 

The online grocer Peapod uses milk runs from DCs when making customer deliveries to help reduce transportation costs for small shipments to be delivered to homes. OshKosh B Gosh, a manufacturer of children s wear, has used this idea to virtually eliminate LTL shipments from its DC in Tennessee to retail stores. 

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