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customer service

How To Correctly Complain About Restaurant Service

David had a disappointing experience at a local brewpub, and thanks to what he's learned from reading The Consumerist, he was able to get the management to make things right. He didn't do it by making a scene, emailing the entire executive board, or holding a protest rally. He just went up to his server and said how things were less than ideal, and then, most importantly, asked for a specific remedy. To his delight, he got more than he asked for. His story, inside... More »

childhood fantasies

Man Builds Secret Apartment At Mall, Gets Away With It For Four Years

An artist in Providence, Rhode Island was apprehended the other day by mall security as he left the secret apartment he'd built almost four years ago, in an unused utility space in the mall's parking garage. The apartment had no running water (they used mall bathrooms), but it did include "a sectional sofa and love seat, coffee and breakfast tables, chairs, lamps, rugs, paintings, a hutch filled with china, a waffle iron, TV and Sony Playstation 2," according to the Boston Globe. More »

mall of america

The Pantheon of American Consumerism, Reborn! Mall of America to Double in Size

The Mall of America, once the largest mall in the USA, and already chock full of retail with its 520 stores, will be doubling in size, in an effort to reclaim the title. More »

complaints

Indoor Playground Takes Wrong Tack When Child Steps On Pushpin

Brady's 14-month-old son stepped on a push pin at an indoor playground store at a local mall. More »

customer service

Man Sues Dell And Wins... By Serving Court Papers To The Mall Kiosk

A NJ man successfully sued DELL in small claims court using a unique approach. He had the court papers delivered to a DELL kiosk in the local mall. More »

the mall at short hills

AmEx Opens Shopper Sanctuaries (Cardholders Only)

AmEx installed opened a special "member's lounge" this week in The Mall At Short Hills, NJ, aka, the epicenter of poop. More »

mac

Best of Both Worlds

ZDNet is reporting that MacMall is selling Macbooks that are pre-loaded with both Windows XP and MacOS. You can get your dual boot system in two flavors: Apple's free BootCamp 1.1 which allows you to boot either operating system, or Nova Development's Parallels Desktop ... which allows you to run both at the same time. More »

phones

Cell Phone User Kicked Out Of Mall

A loud obnoxious woman on a cell phone was kicked out of a Kansas City, MO shopping mall for being a loud obnoxious woman on a cell phone. More »

howto

HOWTO: Have Gay Shopping Sex

Homo and horny and shopping in Cleveland? Check out the Westgate mall s second floor toilet in Kohl s. More »