Two years ago, we told you about the not-at-all a discount retailer called USA Discounters that targeted active-duty servicemembers, and no...
Report: Starbucks Is Now Testing Curbside Pickup
If you’re the kind of person who would rather fall asleep at your desk than venture inside a Starbucks during rush hour, avoiding the crush ...
Chipotle Giving Loyalty Program Members More Than $20M In Free Catering
Chipotle customers who joined the chain’s temporary loyalty program — a program aimed at winning back customers after a spate of food-borne...
Target Launches Website To Gobble Up Startups’ Ideas
Best Buy isn’t the only retailer looking to work with hot new startups , Target was just a bit more quiet about the whole thing. Last week t...
More Than A Year After Corinthian Collapse, Students Still Waiting For Financial Aid Help
Eighteen months after Corinthian Colleges Inc. completed its collapse – closing the remaining Heald College, Wyotech, and Everest University...
Want A Sandwich From NYC’s Carnegie Deli? You’ve Got Until Dec. 31
If you’re the kind of person who visits New York City just for the sandwiches, you’ll probably want to pay attention: the famed Carnegie Del...
Leaking That Movie Where Leo DiCaprio Dances With A Bear Will Cost Former Dr. Phil Show Staffer $1.12 Million
Every awards season, the internet fills up with pristine, pirated copies of Oscar-contending movies, many of them ripped from screeners sent...
NC Mall Wants To Evict Sears For Low Sales, Lack Of Effort
Sears had a deal with the Holly Hill Mall in Burlington, NC that isn’t unusual: the retailer gave the mall a small percentage of its sales i...
New Teddy Ruxpin: Adorable Or The Blinking Demon Of Your Nightmares?
When you hear the name “Teddy Ruxpin,” perhaps you’re hit with a wave of nostalgia tinged with a lingering wariness of the animatronic talki...
AT&T Ends Snooping Program, Stops Charging Internet Users Extra For Privacy
AT&T offers GigaPower subscribers in several cities two options: pay $70 for your connection and get your data snooped on, or keep your ...
American Airlines Flight Attendants Say New Uniforms Are Giving Them Hives, Headaches
It’s got to be hard enough working on an airplane — serving drinks thousands of feet in the sky, smiling at strangers when you maybe want to...
Veterans Who Attended Shuttered ITT Tech Schools Still Waiting For Financial Assistance
Shortly after ITT Educational Services announced it would close all of its ITT Technical campuses across the country , the Department of Edu...
Man Smashes Apple Store Merchandise, Yelling About Consumer Rights
We don’t know how Apple wronged this customer in Dijon, France, but he caught everyone’s attention when he walked calmly around a store, sma...
How Much Might Cord-Cutting Actually Cost Big Cable?
Cord-cutting is, as we know, a real trend. It’s not what the majority of viewers do — huge numbers of consumers subscribe to cable, satellit...
Mom Sues JetBlue After Airline Flies Unaccompanied 5-Year-Old Son To Wrong City
September began with news of a New York City mom whose unaccompanied 5-year-old son somehow ended up on the wrong JetBlue flight , and now t...
Wells Fargo On The Hook For $24.5M Over Servicemember Abuses
Wells Fargo’s bad month has just gotten worse. The U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) have f...
Google Expands Waze Ride-Sharing Test To San Francisco
What’s that sound? It’s Google knocking on Uber and Lyft’s doors to tell them it’s come out to play: the technology giant is taking one step...
Instacart Replaces Tips With “Service Amounts,” But Are Workers Being Stiffed?
Since its launch in 2012 Instacart has offered consumers a way to shop at their local grocery store without actually going to the store. Ins...
Food Trucks Win First Legal Battle Over Rule To Keep Them Away From Restaurants
A restaurant might already have enough competition from other eateries next door, across the street, or even in the same building, so they p...
Volvo Planning To Sell A Fully Self-Driving Car In 5 Years
Another day, another major auto manufacturer announcing plans for a self-driving vehicle: this time it’s Volvo, which says it will offer a f...
Watch Out For Card Skimmers On Gas Pumps In Arizona (And Everywhere Else, Too)
Going to an actual attendant and paying cash for gas is something fewer and fewer of us do every year. But for all the problems of cash, it ...
Southwest Passengers Recall Three-Day Nightmare Travel Experience
There are travel hiccups that keep passengers from getting to their destination by a few hours. And then there are ordeals that keep people ...
Dunkin’ Donuts Planning To Sell Bottled Coffee Drinks Starting Next Year
Joining Starbucks bottled beverages on store shelves next year will be Dunkin’ Donuts, which says it’s teaming up with Coca-Cola to launch r...
Student Loan Default Rates Decline, But A Record Number Of Borrowers Are In Default
While the number of borrowers defaulting on their federal student loans didn’t increase this year, the number of consumers who remain in def...
Walmart Worker Accused Of Setting Multiple Fires In The Store
Things got a bit heated at a Walmart in Massachusetts recently, after a employee allegedly set three fires inside the store. Police respond...
Lawmakers Who Received Money From Wells Fargo Now Want Answers From Bank’s CEO
Imagine you’re a politician who received tens of thousands of dollars in recent years from a bank, and hundreds of thousands from a banking ...
Moving Walkways Were Around Long Before Airports Started Using Them To Move People
While moving walkways have become ubiquitous at airports around the country — along with the rage that comes from getting stuck behind the p...
AT&T Again Complaining It’s Unfair If Web Companies Can Sell Your Data But They Can’t
We are sure you will be shocked, shocked to hear that a major telecom company that currently makes some money from having customers pay to k...
Spotify Is Reportedly Looking Into Buying SoundCloud
It looks like Spotify could be preparing to shore up its streaming music service amid competition in the digital field: according to a new r...
Wells Fargo Employee: I Tried Talking Friends & Family Into Opening Accounts To Meet Sales Quotas
Yet another former Wells Fargo employee has come forward to talk about the high-pressure atmosphere created by the bank, where she says ther...