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Archive Home > 2010 > December > 23 > Betting on the weather to score cash, big prizes

Betting on the weather to score cash, big prizes

Deals are win-win for merchants, who rely on insurance to back the gambles

By Peter Mucha / The Bulletin
December 23, 2010

PHILADELPHIA — About eight years ago, Roxann Dulce came oh-so-close.

Another quarter-inch of snow on Christmas Day, and Anthony Jewelers in Palmyra, N.J., would have refunded the cost of purchases all of its customers made Thanksgiving weekend.

This year, the Palmyra financial controller had a....

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