... a giant banner with the name of a volcano that no one can pronnounce.
The folks over at ChannelAdvisor printed up this banner to welcome home 10 colleagues who have been stuck in London for almost two weeks. The 10 were grounded in the air travel chaos following the volcanic eruption in Iceland on March 20 that stopped European flights for several days.
Channel Advisor, a RTP company that designs software that allows retailers to sell and market goods online, had a team of about 25 in London for an annual company conference. The 10 people who got stuck have been living in hotels and working out of the company's London office. They started coming home Thursday night and should be trickling back over the weekend.

Retail reporter Sue Stock came to the N&O in 2004 and has been covering retail and shopping in the Triangle since then. She is the author of the popular