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Some people, it seems, will do anything to get high. Police officers in Akron, Ohio, in July arrested a group of suspects for allegedly sneaking onto the roof of the Heritage Square Shopping Center, according to The (Akron) Beacon Journal. Police said the group was breaking into the shopping center’s air-conditioning system to get high off of Freon. … It wasn’t Freon that thieves were after when they got onto the roof of a Gold Coast, Australia, shopping center. In what The Gold Coast Bulletin described as a “Mission Impossible-style blitz,” the intruders crawled through air-conditioning ducts and stole electronic equipment and cash from stores in the Tweed City Shopping Centre, New South Wales, Australia, without tripping alarms. … Albertson’s announced that it plans to invest $100 million in Oklahoma. The Boise, Idaho, grocery store chain broke ground on a new store in Tulsa and plans to develop new stores and remodel existing ones in the state. … J.C. Penny and the Dallas Cowboys announced an agreement that makes J.C. Penny the team’s official retailer in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas for the next three years. … New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey criticized Federated Department Stores, charging that the company used faulty accounting practices to evade state taxes. Earlier, Federated had threatened to close stores, cut jobs and scrap plans to expand there if a new state corporate business tax went through. … A Texas jury decided that Sears, Roebuck and Co. must pay $10.2 million to the relatives of a man who died in an accident caused by a faulty Firestone tire bought from the retailer.

— Ian Ritter