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The Distance averts a mini Cuban coffee crisis

It’s safe to say no one at York Coffee Emporium was expecting to come into work and find PayPal had shut down their account. No transactions could be made and customers were getting automatic messages informing them the account was frozen. But why would PayPal take such action?

Cuban Serrano Superior. That’s why. Despite the fact that York Coffee Emporium has sold this brand of coffee on a seasonal basis for years, PayPal suddenly took exception under the trade embargo imposed by JFK. In 1960. On products sold to American consumers.

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Magento Columnised Navigation v1.1.1

As a follow-up to our Magento column navigation extension post from last week, we’ve just pushed the latest version to GitHub.
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Free Magento Extension : Columnised Navigation

Recently we had need to create a mega menu style navigation element on a client site. The child categories from the primary navigation menu needed to be output in columns, rather than one long list. Now, Magento by default simply outputs a single <ul> in the parent element’s <li>, meaning a pure CSS solution would have ordered children to read left to right, rather than top to bottom.

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