THE PLUG MAGAZINE

Is The RadioShack Brand Name Even Worth Anything?

http://ift.tt/18U9B47 ( Phillip Pessar ) All of RadioShack’s stores have been either shut down or sold and have now re-opened to sell only S...

Tobacco Company Credits Falling Gas Prices With Rising Sales

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http://ift.tt/1xYm9CK ( Xavier J. Peg ☠ ) Gas prices have fallen signifiantly in the last year or so , which is great news for consumers, if...

IKEA Releases Catalog Of Furniture That Will Charge Your Phone For You

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http://ift.tt/1yAKDlS Last month, IKEA announced it would soon be releasing furniture with built-in charging technology so yu could power-u...

Creator Of The Cronut Says He Eats One Every Day Because Come On, Of Course He Does

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http://ift.tt/1IneSwX ( ccho ) Perhaps you’ve experienced that cycle familiar to many home cooks: You come up with a recipe, it turns out r...

Amazon Shuts Down Service That Let Users Test Apps Before Buying Them Because No One Was Really Using It

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http://ift.tt/1HB4inN (Screengrab via TechCrunch ) If you haven’t used — much less heard of — Amazon’s TestDrive service, designed to let c...

Report: Justice Dept. May Recommend Blocking Comcast, Time Warner Cable Merger

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http://ift.tt/1BCJwSm ( Kevin Burkett ) It’s been well over a year since Comcast announced its $45.2 billion plan to buy Time Warner Cable ...

Chinese Luxury Car Buyers Shop The Very Unglamorous Gray Market

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http://ift.tt/1E9qtx7 ( Eric Norris ) Here at Consumerist, we’re fascinated with the global gray market: the system of parallel imports tha...

Households Earning $75,000 Eat Out Too Much To Save Any Money

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http://ift.tt/18U9BB7 ( Great Beyond ) Earlier this week, the news broke that Americans are, as a whole spending more on dining out than on ...

Don’t Be Shocked When Lowe’s Won’t Sell You A $2,999 Fridge Mistakenly Priced At $298

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http://ift.tt/1ImOseS No matter how many times we remind everyone that stores are generally under no legal obligation to honor a pricing m...

Report: Match.com Sign-In Security Flaw Could Be Putting Millions Of User Passwords At Risk

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http://ift.tt/1Hg4KHJ ( Sister72 ) Sure, love might be in the air — but that doesn’t mean tens of millions of Match.com users’ passwords sh...

“Batman v Superman” Trailer Leaks Online

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http://ift.tt/1On7gw7 Because of the Portuguese subtitles on the leaked trailer, it’s believed the video was shot at a theater in Brazil. W...

Group Of Doctors Want Dr. Oz Removed From Columbia Medical Faculty For Promoting “Quack Treatments”

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http://ift.tt/16JXLbZ Dr. Oz testifying in June 2014 before a Senate consumer protection subcommittee. Citing what they call repeated “disd...

McDonald’s All-Day Breakfast Test Will Not Include Full Breakfast Menu

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http://ift.tt/19KSt1i ( Morton Fox ) McDonald’s recently confirmed it would soon begin testing an all-day breakfast menu in the San Diego a...

The Description Of Starbucks’ New S’mores Frappuccino Makes My Teeth Hurt

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http://ift.tt/1IRX54q Without even having tasted Starbucks’ newest flavor promotion, the S’Mores Frappuccino that’s heading to stores for t...

Verizon FiOS To Offer More Flexible Channel Bundles

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http://ift.tt/1tAtxSK ( Alec Taback ) While some still hold out hope for the pipe dream of a true a la carte pay-TV option where the custom...

Southwest Airlines Passenger Removed From Flight After Allegedly Poking Snoring Guy With A Pen

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http://ift.tt/1JbcitZ ( @MNS1974 on Twitter) Sometimes the only way to put a stop to snoring, that involuntary yet endlessly annoying to o...

Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds

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http://ift.tt/1b3TXE9 Here are nine of the best photos that readers added to the Consumerist Flickr Pool in the last two weeks, picked for ...

Send Us Your Favorite (And Least Favorite) Punny Business Names

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http://ift.tt/1NSTUwT It started with a misdial. Specifically, a car repair business misdialed and reached my house instead, hanging up imme...

Lawmaker Behind Pro-Airline Legislation Admits To Dating Top Airline Lobbyist

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http://ift.tt/1b1HErV Rep. Shuster (PA) acknowledged that he has been dating Shelley Rubino, Vice President, Global Government Affairs at A...

Cat Lost For 2 Weeks In JFK Airport Found Alive

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http://ift.tt/1yyUFEo Felix’s Carrier, without Felix. ( Friends of Jack ) While it only took a few hours for a wolverine roaming Newark airp...

You Can Now Google “Find My Phone” To Locate Your Lost Android Device

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http://ift.tt/1CTgTfp A new update to the Google app on Android devices now allows users to merely Google “find my phone” and get not just ...