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9 Things We Learned About The Downfall Of Target Canada

http://ift.tt/1RE7mWz Why did Target’s expansion into Canada fail so quickly? The company is based in Minnesota, which is dangerously close...

Takata Airbag Recall Increases By 5 Million, Ninth U.S. Death Reported

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http://ift.tt/1MpcYh1 The December death of a Georgia man prompted federal regulators to increase by five million the number of vehicles re...

CDC Investigating Possible Listeria Outbreak In Dole Salads

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http://ift.tt/1RDXnR8 Since the beginning of July, there have been twelve people who became so sick from a specific strain of Listeria tha...

Self-Driving Car Gets Involved In Crash… After Driver Takes Control

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http://ift.tt/1Mk2hM2 Given Google’s recent confession that its self-driving cards would have been involved in 13 crashes if a human hadn’...

100 Classic Atari Games Coming To Steam Later This Year

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http://ift.tt/1PnTz6f Players of a certain age may have fond memories of some old Atari classics of yesteryear, but the hardware isn’t exac...

Family Caught In Battle Between HOA & Developers While Their Yard Falls Into Pond

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http://ift.tt/1ZHMkWy So you come home one day to find that the slope at the back of your yard has begun to slough off into the pond behind...

U.S. Postal Service Looking For More ‘Experimental’ Delivery Ideas, Cost Savings

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http://ift.tt/1pqypbt The U.S. Postal Service has adapted to a future where we send and receive fewer first-class letters, but need many mo...

Microsoft Finally Resolving A Five-Year-Old Skype Privacy Flaw For All Users

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http://ift.tt/1WBMa2T There’s a security flaw in Skype that can expose users’ location. That’s not the news, though: that flaw was discovere...

Starbucks Transitioning Three Teavana Tea Bars To Coffee Shops, Closing Another

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http://ift.tt/1ZSnpF9 When you think of Starbucks, you probably picture a cup of coffee, but the chain also operates several similar tea sho...

To Make Up For Outbreaks, Chipotle Wants To Cater Your Super Bowl Party

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http://ift.tt/1RZEKYe Since Chipotle’s foodborne illness issues came to light last fall, the company has tried to win back customers by s...

It’s 50% Off Time At Most Of Those Walmarts That Are Shutting Down

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http://ift.tt/1UUxOJv Of the 150 or so Walmart and Walmart Express Stores fated for the chopping block, almost all of them are closing for...

Cheese Company With Leaky Roof, “Uncleanable Surfaces” Pleads Guilty To Selling Listeria-Tainted Food

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http://ift.tt/1nDVkQE Perhaps you’d like to think that your shrink-wrapped ready-to-eat cheese was made in something resembling a science-fi...

Woman Sues Kohl’s After Receiving Thousands Of Robocalls Intended For Ex-Boyfriend

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http://ift.tt/1PaVp8L Receive just one phone call meant for someone else and you might chalk it up to a simple misunderstanding. But gettin...

Consumer Reports Checks Fitbit Heart Rate Monitors Again

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http://ift.tt/1nDQwe6 Earlier this month, a lawsuit from several Fitbit tracking watch owners made the news . In it, three users claimed tha...

Drug-Resistant Superbug Gene Found In At Least 19 Countries Since November

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http://ift.tt/1OCkhVj You’ve likely never been prescribed the antibiotic colistin, because it’s a drug of last resort that you turn to afte...

Google Paid Apple $1 Billion In 2014 For Privilege Of Search Bar On iPhone

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http://ift.tt/1AdfqXk When you go to perform a Web search on an iPhone, the phone automatically chooses Google for you. Why? There are othe...

2015 Was Another Record Year For Vehicle Recalls

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http://ift.tt/1bUi5Ks Shortly after taking over as head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Mark Rosekind warned carmak...

Labor Board Orders Walmart To Rehire 16 Employees Fired For Striking

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http://ift.tt/1ZH51cI In 2013, a group of Walmart workers chartered buses and traveled to the retailer’s Arkansas headquarters to protest w...

Over 5,100 Flights Across Two Days Already Cancelled Due To Winter Storm

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http://ift.tt/1EMaypJ Did you have plans to fly, er, anywhere involving the eastern half of U.S. this weekend? If you’re not already in the...

Verizon FiOS May Be Shoving ESPN Back Into Its “Skinny” Bundles

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http://ift.tt/1tAtxSK Not even a year after Verizon FiOS began offering so-called “skinny” pay-TV bundles that don’t include the pricey ESP...

Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds

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http://ift.tt/1NpmSOd Here are ten of the best photos that readers added to the Consumerist Flickr Pool in the last week, picked for usabil...