Bob Snead will give you a Walmart vest and Tshirt if you walk with him during the Deitch Projects Art Parade this Saturday.
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Consumer Blasts Verizon With Car Windows
By 8.25.06
Another fine example of people using their cars as anti-corporate billboards. What really makes this one, however, is what the owner decided to park his car in front of.
Improv Everywhere Invades Home Depot
By 8.25.06
Softcore agit prop group Improv Everywhere sent 255 people to Home Depot in Manhattan to shop very slowly for five minutes.
Whorehouse Gives Great Customer Service
By 8.7.06
Sometimes stories of wonderful care for the customer shows up in the oddest places, like a massage parlor on the Lower East Side.
That’s MISTER Crack To You
By 7.13.06
If there’s one commodity we don’t talk about enough on The Consumerist, it’s Erythroxylum coca. This was brought squarely to our attention after Bucky told us about a white van circulating the streets of Harlem, promoting crack.
UPDATE: Hertz Hatin’ On The Boroughs Too
By 6.13.06
Hey, it’s not just me and Dollar Rent-A-Car that hates the Boroughs and everything their denizenship of loudmouthed bozos and doofus hipsters stands for. Hertz does too!
Dollar-Rent-a-Car Hatin’ On the Boroughs
By 6.12.06
Dan thinks Dollar-Rent-A-Car is a bigot, hating jews, minorities and filthy liberals. Otherwise, how can you explain item 1.O from their rental policy?
Other Music Through the Exploding Looking Glass
By 5.23.06
If you’ve never been to Other Music in New York you may not appreciate this as much but OM is an awesome lil music store at East 4th and Lafayette. Contrary to what this video might have you believe, the people are actually super friendly and helpful. There is a certain elitist air but that’s because they know their shit and they know they know it.
Turning the Tables on the Hudson
By 5.23.06
Robert Norton is staying at the Hudson Hotel here in New York and his feet are cold:
Apple Store Opening Revealed
By 5.22.06
Here’s everything we missed by staying home from the Apple Store opening on Friday.
Apartment ‘Painted’ With 100 Gallons
By 5.15.06
Rent-stabilized apartments in New York are the bane of their landlords, gnashing their teeth like the rats they unleash to drive out unwanted tenants.
Peeping Tom on 5th Ave Shop Windows
By 5.12.06
As promised, the results of our Tuesday stroll down 5th avenue, peeking inside all the windows and seeing what we could see. Not all stores are represented in this set; frankly, we found many of the displays tired and staid. Here’s a few things that caught our eye, in a magic Flickr gallery.
Everything Must Go
By 5.12.06
We thought there was something a little perfect about this picture we took on Tuesday of a shopkeep lording over his bronze lions and 50% off all NY souvenirs.
Abercrombie & Fitch Catalogue Come to Life
By 5.10.06
We took a stroll down 5th avenue in NYC this afternoon and saw many delightful and several inane things through the shop windowss (a Flickr gallery is forthcoming). But first, we just had to show you this pic we snagged through the open door at Abercrombie & Fitch.
UPDATE: Commerce Bank: Liar, Pants Ablaze
By 4.7.06
Yesterday, B.L. Ochman sent in complaint about going into Commerce bank, seeing a sign that said, “Deposit ’til 6. Next Day Availability.” At 4 p.m. she approached a teller with a deposit. The teller said, “Just so you know, I’m working on tomorrow, so this won’t be credited today.” Hello, disconnect!
Morning News Roundup: Pigs O’er Manhattan Edition
By 4.7.06
Cingular’s Server Down Yesterday
By 3.8.06
Looks like yesterday’s Cingular dropouts may have been due to a faulty server which had to get a bobby pin inserted into a small recessed button on the backside.
