Nothing like a little unexpected graphic pornography to dampen a family shopping trip to Best Buy, as one woman complained after such an image popped up on display TVs while she was browsing with her grandchildren. [More]
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Waiter Knows You & Your High Friends Weren't Able To Just Say No
By 2.21.12
Sure, servers can keep track of their tables with boring numbers assigned to specific areas, or they can just call’em like they see’em, like one waiter who designated one group of customers according to their level of intoxication. [More]
Target Refuses To Send Me The Item I Ordered, Instead Suggests I Just Keep The Wrong One
By 2.17.12
Melissa is funny in that when she does her shopping online and picks something out, she expects that item to be delivered in a timely manner. Weird, right? That doesn’t mean that if she receives the wrong item, she’ll want to keep it instead of getting what she ordered, but Target doesn’t seem to understand that. [More]
Target Figures Out Teen Girl Is Pregnant Before Her Father Does, Sends Helpful Coupons
By 2.17.12
We didn’t really believe it when we were told in 7th grade that math could unlock the secrets of the universe, but after reading about the coupon-wielding power of a Target statistician, which resulted in a mighty surprise for one father of a teenage girl, we might be converts. Doesn’t make math any better though. [More]
Mars Is Going To Snatch That King-Sized Candy Bar Right Out Of Your Hands
By 2.16.12
Okay fine, Mars isn’t going to run up to you and steal your candy, but the makers of Snickers bars and other tasty treats are going to stop selling chocolate products that have more than 250 calories per portion. So that means no more king-sized Snickers, Twix, 3 Musketeers, Mars, Milky Way and more. [More]
Discerning Brooklyn Tots Now Demanding "Babyccinos" To The Annoyance Of The Borough's Baristas
By 2.16.12
Well isn’t this adorable, and by adorable we of course mean, eye-rollable: Apparently tasteful babies in Brooklyn and their parents are ordering something called a “babyccino,” which involves either decaf cappuccino or just steamed milk and foam. [More]
Helpful Stranger Delivers Your Mail, Curses Out Your Bank
By 2.16.12
It’s just plain heart-warming when a stranger does something nice for you. When Efrem’s box of new checks from Citibank went astray, the person who did receive them brought them by, with a helpful note about Efrem’s choice of financial institutions. “Citibank sucks,” the Good Samaritan wrote. “I would not trust [these] MFers with my money.” [More]
Company Markets Beer Specifically For You To Waste Playing Beer Pong
By 2.15.12
Because it’s just so difficult for college students to go out and find super cheap beer to slosh into cups while chucking ping pong balls into said cups and then guzzling, one company has gone ahead and created Pong, the beer specifically made for playing Beer Pong. And it’s lite! [More]
Man Suffers Heart Attack At The Unfortunately Named Heart Attack Grill
By 2.15.12
Unfortunately for one man in Las Vegas, a restaurant lived up to its name quite literally. While dining out on a “Triple Bypass Burger,” a man suffered a heart attack at The Heart Attack Grill over the weekend. [More]
Kellogg Adopts Pringles For $2.7 Billion In Order To Expand Its Snack Family
By 2.15.12
In an attempt to make their company one big, happy, snacky family, Kellogg is shelling out $2.7 billion in straight-up cash to buy the Pringles line from Procter & Gamble. As long as they don’t try to take the chips out of the can or do anything else drastic, not much should change so far as the munching experience. [More]
Mistakes To Avoid When Car Shopping
By 2.15.12
If you don’t know when you’re doing when you’re out shopping for a car, you can easily fall victim to savvy salesmen willing to take you for a ride. But if you know what to look out for and act decisively, the experience doesn’t have to be awful. [More]
Owning A Smaller, Cheaper Car Doesn't Necessarily Mean You'll Pay Less For Insurance
By 2.14.12
Thinking you’ve scored a great deal by buying a smaller, cheaper car might not be entirely correct, as one report indicates owners of such vehicles might end up paying more in insurance than some of their fellow drivers. [More]
Florist Drains Bank Account To Ship Valentine's Day Orders After Amazon Holds Up Her Payments
By 2.14.12
A Connecticut florist was over the moon when her flower business began booming after she signed up to sell her floral wares through Amazon. That is, until Amazon told her she had made too much money, too fast, and they’d have to freeze their payments to her. But since it’s Valentine’s Day, she decided the show must go on — even at risk to her own personal finaces. [More]
Looking For Love In All The Electronic Places: Older People Now Really Getting Into Online Dating
By 2.13.12
It wouldn’t be Valentine’s Day week without the prerequisite romance and dating news crawling out to remind everyone that yes, there are single people in the world, and they’re looking for love. And guess what? It’s not just you young kids surfing the net for a match, as a new study says the fastest growing age group in online dating are those over 60. [More]
Citibank Closes My Credit Card Due To Security Breach, Doesn't Tell Me Until I Sign In Online
By 2.13.12
It’s great that Citibank went ahead and closed Sylvia’s account after it was breached, thus saving her from thievery and other unpleasant security concerns. One thing that would’ve been even better, though, would be to let Sylvia know they’d gone ahead and done that. [More]
Apple & Google Are Corporate Kings Of Consumer Opinion, Big Banks Fail To Impress
By 2.13.12
When it comes to trusting corporations, it seems we’re a lot more likely to have high opinions of the ones that provide us with shiny toys and zippy technology, rather than big bad banks and other financial institutions. That is, according to an annual public opinion poll on corporate brands. [More]
Living Man Told He Can't Can't Get A Loan Because Bank Of America Says He's Dead
By 2.13.12
Whatever Bank of America says must be true, right? Which is rough news for one man who just found out he’s been dead since 2009, according to the bank. They also reported the sad news to the three major credit rating agencies, and that really put a kink in his request for a bank loan for his new home. [More]
