Usually when I’m harassing my roommate via text message to pay me back for the pizza and beer I bought her the night before, I have to use ...
2015: By The Numbers
While 2015 didn’t smash as many records for “terrible things that can happen to consumers in a single event” as 2014 — what with last year’...
Starting Tomorrow, Hawaii Becomes First State To Raise Smoking Age To 21
Hawaii may have been the fiftieth state to join the U.S., but when the calendar flips over to 2016 after midnight tonight , it will become...
24 Stories We Covered In 2015 That We Never Saw Coming
The following is a true story : One day, two Consumerist staffers were chatting about the work day. One said, “I can’t believe I’m writing a...
Car Owner Tries To Drive Vehicle Away During Snow Emergency Tow
When you live in an occasionally snowy urban area and own a car, snow emergencies are an inevitable occasional annoyance. They impose diffe...
Old Navy Apologizes, Pulls Toddler Shirt That Suggests Kids Shouldn’t Aspire To A Career In The Arts
Part of the wonder of being a little kid is the idea that you can grow up to be whatever you want to be — whether that’s President of the Un...
Delta Pilots Turn Plane Around To Pick Up Passengers Traveling To Funeral
For the most part, when a gate agent closes the door to a plane, that’s it, you’re out of luck. But that wasn’t the case for a family trave...
Another Year That Shouldn’t Have Been: The 50 Most Embarrassing Stories From 2015
The end of the year is a time to reflect on the good times, bad times, and those that just made you scratch your head in disbelief. While th...
The World’s Largest, Most French Fry-Box-Shaped McDonald’s Is Now Closed
McDonald’s lost its biggest restaurant in the world last night. Which sounds like a sad thing, to folks who value size and fried potato sha...
What Does It Take To Get On The FDA’s “Most Wanted” List?
We all know that law enforcement agencies like the FBI and Interpol publish lists of fugitives wanted for things like murder, armed robber...
Blasts From The Very Recent Past: Consumerist’s Most-Read Stories For 2015
Another 365 days, another 6,000 or so Consumerist stories in the can. We’ve seen the biggest name in TV fail miserably (again, and again), c...
New York Company Says It Will Be The First To Offer Kosher Certified Medical Marijuana
There are all kinds of foods that can be kosher, so why not marijuana? A pot grower in New York says its products have been certified koshe...
How Well Do You Remember 2015? Take Our Quiz To Find Out
With only hours to go before we bid adieu to 2015, it’s time to look back and see how much you can recall about the year that was. Take ...
Facebook Congratulates People Who Aren’t 46 On 46 Years Of Friendship With Their Friends
Friendship is great, and it should be celebrated. But Facebook is jumping the gun on honoring some of those relationships by dozens of year...
Procter & Gamble Explain Why Powdered Tide Suddenly Needs A Bigger Scoop
Earlier this week, we shared a reader’s photo of the new and larger scoop in her box of Tide detergent. Normally, we’d be happy when a compa...
Uber Is Thinking Of Getting Into The Travel Business
While yes, you certainly travel some distance when you’re riding in a car you had pick you up, Uber is apparently considering expanding its...
For Reasons Good And Bad, 2015 Was A Big Year For McDonald’s
By now you’ve probably heard that McDonald’s may have managed to turn years of slumping sales around by offering customers the ability to mu...