Like barbecues and weddings, colds have a season. When you’re in the business of selling zinc lozenges and over-the-counter medicine to help...
Feds Order Debt Relief Schemes To Cease Misleading Use Of Government Logos
Even though it’s incredibly easy to slap a government agency’s logo on your website, that doesn’t make it okay. Just ask the two debt relief...
Some Merchandise From Closing Walmarts Will End Up For Sale On Amazon
The news that 154 Walmart stores would be closing in the United States was devastating to employees and to the communities left without gr...
Payment Processor Cutting Ties With DraftKings, FanDuel Amid Gambling Disputes
With the state officials in Nevada , New York , Illinois , and now Texas all saying they believe that daily fantasy sports [DFS] sites Draf...
White Castle Takes A Spot On The Cage-Free Eggs Bandwagon, Promises To Make The Switch By 2025
The cage-free eggs bandwagon is so crowded right about now, we might as well call it a “bandsemitruck.” Joining its restaurant pals and oth...
Kroger Wants Alcohol Companies To Pick Up The Tab For Its New Booze Organization Plan
After decades of sticking with its organization system in stores, Kroger has a new plan for how it decides which booze brands go on which s...
Longshoremen Walk Off The Job At New York City Area Ports
Earlier today, work at cargo ports in the New York and New Jersey area abruptly stopped, and dockworkers walked off the job. While trucks l...
Uber Cuts Some New York City Fares By 15%
Less than a month after Uber slashed its prices in 100 cities around the country, the ride-hailing service implemented similar cuts in New ...
Walmart Ordered To Pay $31 Million For Retaliating Against Pharmacist Whistleblower
<img src="http://ift.tt/1QxDecn; alt="This image has nothing to do with the lawsuit, but it does help us maintain the rogue spi...
How To Avoid Becoming A Victim Of A Super Bowl Ticketing Scam
Whenever there’s a widely publicized event bringing in people from all over like the Super Bowl, you better believe there will be scammers ...
Chobani Can’t Run Ads Claiming Other Greek Yogurt Products Contain Bug Spray, Chlorine
A federal court has ordered the makers of Chobani Greek yogurt to stop running a series of new ads that claim similar products from Dannon a...
A List of Corporate Buzzwords From Pepsi’s Announcement Of Its Artisanal Cocktail Space
Do you have a hole in the heart that’s shaped like artisanal drinks made from a kola nut and peddled by a soda company that knows how to us...
1/3 Of American Adults Use Online Ad-Blockers, Few Publishers Try To Stop Them
If you’re one of the approximately 1/3 of American Internet users who employ an ad-blocker in your web browser, we don’t mind, because Cons...
Stanford Law Professor: T-Mobile’s ‘Binge On’ Violates Net Neutrality Rules
Last fall, T-Mobile introduced Binge On, an optional program that lets users stream certain video streams without counting the data against ...
Would-Be Macy’s Burglar Pulls Ploy From ‘Home Alone 2’ Handbook
The things that work in the movies, don’t always – or almost never – result in the same outcome in real life. Just ask a would-be thief in O...
Apple Kills Off Free iTunes Radio In Favor Of Apple Music
As of today, Apple’s free iTunes Radio is dead. Long live Apple Music — or at least that’s apparently the company’s plan as it officially s...
Alaska Airlines Apologizes After “Meet Our Eskimo” Branding Effort Offends
When you’ve gone and repainted your planes with a new logo, we can understand the desire to show it off to everyone. But maybe consider runn...
In Comcast Country, Set-Top Box Competition Will Hurt Innovation, Raise Prices
Earlier this week, FCC Chair Tom Wheeler proposed new rules intended to increase competition in the pay-TV set-top box market. Rather than ...
Thousands Of D.C. Residents Won’t Have To Pay Parking Tickets Issued During Winter Storm
There’s perhaps nothing better than hearing you won’t have to pay a parking ticket. Thousands of Washington, D.C. residents will be filled ...
Justin’s Almond Butter Hit With Shrink Ray, But Only At Walmart
One of the nice things about Justin’s brand nut butters is that they come in a jar that’s a full 16 ounces. Except, reader EC learned recent...
VW Buyback Plan Seems More Likely As Company Struggles To Find Fix For Emission-Cheating Vehicles
Since Volkswagen admitted last year to using “defeat devices” in certain cars to cheat on emissions tests, some owners and consumer advocat...
Wisconsin Police Recover Second Load Of Stolen Cheese
We can all rest easy tonight, safe in the knowledge that cheese that was once ripped from the arms of its rightful owner has been safely re...
Nissan Recalls 846,000 Altimas Over Hood Latch Issues For The Third Time
For the third time in the past year and a half, Nissan is recalling hundreds of thousands of Altima vehicles because of fears the cars’ ho...
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
Here are six of the best photos that readers added to the Consumerist Flickr Pool in the last week, picked for usability in a Consumerist p...