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Tipoffs for Winston-Salem, North Carolina (City) Newsletter for Wednesday April 17, 2024 ( 2 items )  

N.C. Agriculture & Consumer Services Dept.: 14 Stores Pay Fines for Price Scanning Errors
RALEIGH, North Carolina, April 17 -- The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services issued the following news release: The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Standards Division has collected fines from 14 stores in Alamance, Forsyth, Hertford, Mecklenburg, Stanly, Wake, Wilkes and Union counties for price scanning errors. "Many of the stores facing fines in the first quarter of 2024 had multiple failed inspections and a high rate of overcharging errors,"   more

Wake Forest University: The 'Switch Cost' of Multitasking
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, April 17 (TNSres) -- Wake Forest University issued the following Q&A on April 16, 2024, with Psychology professor Anthony Sali: * * * Multitasking is the act of performing multiple tasks or activities simultaneously or near-simultaneously. However, studies in cognitive psychology suggest that true simultaneous multitasking is unlikely. Instead, our brains are switching between tasks rather than handling them concurrently. This rapid switching between tasks has a   more