7-eleven
Would you like your morning coffee with a side of Domo-kun? In one of those odd twists of globalization and
marketing synergy, the mascot of Japanese public television network NHK has found his way onto 99 cent cups of coffee and special Slurpee cups at 7-Eleven stores in the United States.
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Interchange Fees
7-Eleven plans to serve up your next Slurpee with a petition to Congress protesting unfair credit card fees. No, the fees aren't unfair to you, they're unfair to 7-Eleven. The vendor of last resort is mad about
interchange fees, the fees banks charge merchants for accepting a credit card payment. The recent credit card legislation signed into law protected consumers from rate increases, but stayed silent with regards to interchange fees.
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morning news
- 7-Eleven is set to implement a new, testosterone-boosted ATM this year, providing even more banking solutions to the great unwashed
- The all-embracing milk of corporate hegemony continues to disintegrate the Cinnamon Toast Crunch of the public domain, Showtime bought the Smithsonian's film archive, giving the commercial channel 'first refusal' rights over anyone trying to use the archive for documentaries and the like. [via]
- The New York Times reports on the Chevy/Apprentice user-created ad site and its slew of anti-SUV ads. The site went live last Fridayish and the story was filed today. Not a bad turnaround; on the heels of a site redesign, is the old gray lady trying to hem its skirts up a little bit and show some, gasp, ankle?
- Ejaculating energy prices have Exxon beating out Wal-Mart for the Fortune 500 #1 slot, as determined by revenue
- Speaking of, Brokeback Mountain DVDs started selling today at Wal-Mart and everywhere else, amidst predictable conservative backlash (sounds kinky, no?) Let's see how long it takes the house of Sam Walton to pull it. Sidebar: where is our Brokeback Molehill parody?
- A new study shows that black-oriented TV has substantially more fast-food ads than more general programming. Sounds like someone didn't realize Bamboozled was a satire.
Consumerist
Tomorrow, 6,000 participating 7-Eleven stores will be giving away free tiny 
