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minding the store





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Who knows if they’ll be minding the store at all?

From Salon • Jan. 6, 2026

When nearly a quarter-billion dollars can vanish from one state program before anyone truly notices, taxpayers are justified in asking who was supposed to be minding the store.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Most, as indexers, are just blindly buying — assuming that somebody else is minding the store.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 10, 2025

But kids understand that no one is minding the store.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2023

I stayed and helped Papa with minding the store and sewed frocks for Marla Teresa, all the while waiting for him to come around.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez




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