Let’s be honest for a moment — even if you’re working today, chances are that you mentally checked out before you even stepped into the offi...
Morton Salt Avalanche Buries Three Vehicles At Car Dealership Next Door
( vision63 ) Quick, someone grab all the deer and salt shakers you can find and start licking/scooping: After a storage facility wall parti...
What We Liked About 2014: The Editors’ Favorite Stories Of The Year
The clock hasn’t even struck midnight yet, and already we’re reminiscing about the year gone by. For us here at Consumerist, 2014 wasn’t on...
Tiny Walmarts Take Bodega Form, Invade Mexico
For several years now, we’ve followed the proliferation of tinier and tinier Walmarts across the American retailscape. From the supermarket-...
LG, Samsung Want Curved, Ultra-Wide Monitors To Be The It Thing For 2015
Shoppers who got a shiny new ultra-HD 4K TV this year may feel like they’re on top of the tech trends, but that’s so 2014. There is, of co...
Play-Doh Will Replace Phallic Toy Frosting Extruders On Request
Does your child have one of the Play-Doh Cake Mountain playsets, and you want the weirdly phallic frosting extruder gone because you can’t s...
Sprint’s “Framily,” NFL’s Family Of Disloyal Fans Lead List Of 2014’s Worst Ads
There has been a lot of discussion in recent years about what exactly constitutes a “family” in a time when people can have deeply felt conn...
Comcast Rings Out 2014 With Yet Another Tape-Recorded Customer Service Disaster
It’s been a bad year for Comcast’s customer service image — probably not what the company wants to hear when it’s trying to convince feder...
Thief’s Attempt To Blast ATM Open Literally Backfires
Recently here at Consumerist, we’ve reviewed some very unsuccessful ways to open up ATMs and get at the money inside. Smashing the machine w...
Freaks And Misfits: Dispatches From Santa’s Amazon Warehouse
( Alan Rappa ) Santa is not real, and neither are his elves. If you’re old enough to be on the Internet unsupervised, you probably already ...
Dunkin’ Donuts Selling A Pizza Bagel, Refuses To Call It A Pizza Bagel
What do you get when you take a bagel, slather it in tomato sauce, pile mozzarella cheese atop it with a dash of Italian seasonings and bak...
FDA Inspection Reveals Chinese Restaurant Supplier Was Rat-Infested Nightmare
( Rennett Stowe ) There are fascinating horrors hiding in letters from the Food and Drug Administration to the food, drug, and cosmetic comp...
Birds Slur When They Sing After Too Much Booze, Just Like Us
( Karen Chappelle ) Anyone who’s ever had a Drunk Uncle Hal knows that a natural result of imbibing a bit too much fire water is the propen...
It Was Once Dubbed The World’s Largest Mall, And Now It’s About To Be Dust
( Brandon Doran ) Oh, how the mighty have fallen: The former ruler of wide swaths of parking lot as the world’s largest mall when it was bu...
Is In-Store Pickup Any Faster Than Just Shopping At The Store?
( Molly ) For years, an increasing number of retailers have been pushing their “buy online, pickup in store” (BOPIS, for all you acronym lo...
Parents Are Upset About This Play-Doh Extruder For Some Reason
Do you know who I feel sorry for this week? The people running social media for Hasbro’s Play-Doh brand of perpetual play clay. People keep ...
White Castle Changes Everything You Think You Know About White Castle, Puts Veggie Sliders On The Menu
What do you think of when you think of White Castle? If it’s “steamed meat,” you’re not alone. Thus, friends, we can get through this toget...
Early Lawsuits Regarding GM Ignition Switch Defect Often Fell Through Cracks In The Court System
( paul bica ) Since General Motors began recalling millions of vehicles for defective ignition switches earlier this year, several reports...
Third Candy Apple Maker Recalls Treats For Possible Listeria Contamination
( ChrisGoldNY ) Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned consumers to avoid some caramel apples after at l...
Another Parking Lot Payment Data Breach At OneStopParking
(sfxeric) December 2014 really hasn’t been great for offsite airport parking facilities. Earlier this week, we learned about a parking lot h...
McDonald’s Keeps Its Name Off Its New Healthier-Food Eatery
( photo via The Corner by McCafe’s Facebook page ) The McDonald’s brand — with its distinctive color scheme, yellow arches, and the use of ...
Plastic Bag Supporters Petition To Challenge Ban In California
( taberandrew ) It was only three months ago that California’s Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law banning single-use plastic bags , and already ...
CFPB Urges DoD To Close Loopholes That Cost Military Personnel Millions Of Dollars
( Hammerin Man ) Nearly three months ago the Obama administration and the Department of Defense announced a proposed overhaul of the Milit...
Watch Young Kid Go On 3-Minute Dollar Store-Destroying Rampage
Have you ever been so fed up by life that you just wanted to run amok in a retail store, ripping items off shelves and pulling down displa...