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No, Office Depot Won’t Price-Match Its Own Website

http://ift.tt/1QSNUQm Mara was shopping online at OfficeMax Depot (not the company’s actual post-merger name) when she found a package of th...

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Advocates: Schools Using Forced Arbitration Shouldn’t Receive Federal Aid

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J For-profit colleges that require students to sign away their legal rights, forcing them into arbitration in order to en...

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Delta Trying To Sell More Premium Cabin Seats To Cut Down On Free Upgrades

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J It’s the holy grail for many a frequent traveler with airline miles to burn: triumphing over everyone else waiting at t...

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Inspectors In Massachusetts Combing Gas Stations, Other Card Readers For Skimmers

http://ift.tt/1QSu1ZF Look out when you’re on the road: police and state standards agencies have noticed a scary trend near highways in New ...

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California Could Be Second State To Raise Minimum Smoking Age To 21

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Just days after the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors voted to increase the legal smoking age from 18 to 21, the state’...

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Lawsuit: New York Shouldn’t Charge Sales Tax On Tampons

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Should tampon sales be taxed by the state? Five Manhattan women don’t think so, and have filed a lawsuit against New Yo...

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Boeing Creates Self-Cleaning Airplane Bathroom, Claims To Kill 99.99% Of Germs

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Ah, the joy of airplane bathrooms: at one point we’ve all had to cram ourselves into the small, overused closets to do ...

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Intuit Finds New, More Caring Owner For Quicken

Intuit Finds New, More Caring Owner For Quicken

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J When you can’t give a pet the care that it deserves anymore, you find a new home for it. Accounting software company In...

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Samsonite Is Packing Up Rival Tumi And Taking It Home With $1.8B Deal

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Luggage company Samsonite is taking on some extra baggage — on purpose. The company confirmed Thursday that it’s agreed...

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N.Y. Driver Charged With A Felony Learns There’s No Such Thing As A DIY License Plate

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J If you’re in a bind and don’t have valid registration for your vehicle, whipping out some cardboard and colored markers...

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Staples To Close 50 Stores In Preparation For Life With Or Without Office Depot

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J As it awaits the final verdict from regulators on its pending billion-dollar purchase of rival office supply chain Offi...

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Regulators Investigating 420,000 Ford Trucks For Brake Failure Issue

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J After receiving dozens of complaints from consumers about brake failure, federal regulators have opened a probe into 42...

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Timberwolves Fans Suing Over Team’s New Paperless Ticketing System

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Sometimes, even the biggest sports fans can’t make it to their team’s game, for whatever reason (rain, snow, sleet, in-...

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DNC Chair Backs Pro-Payday Loan Bill; Thinks 300% Interest Is A Consumer Protection

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J You currently can’t get Republican and Democratic lawmakers to agree on a lunch order, let alone jointly support legisl...

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Six Flags Adding Virtual Reality To Roller Coasters

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Don’t get sufficiently nauseated from the ups, downs, turns, and loops of riding a roller coaster? Then plan a trip to ...

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Siblings Arrested For Robbing Girl Scouts Of $200 In Cookie Money

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Most people look at Girl Scouts selling cookies outside of a store and see children learning important lessons about co...

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Costco Raising Entry-Level Employee Minimum Wage For The First Time In Nearly A Decade

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J In a bid to attract more quality workers, Costco says it will raise the minimum wage for entry-level workers for the fi...

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AMC Theaters Will Be The Largest U.S. Theater Chain With $1.1B Acquisition Of Carmike Cinemas

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The odds that the screen you see that new flick on is owned by AMC Theaters are about to go up, now that the chain is g...

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Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds

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

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Hotels.com Leap Day Coupons Less Useless Than They Appear

http://ift.tt/1QPv7oW Last week, we tried to figure out a promotion from Hotels.com that had an extremely lengthy list of hotels specificall...

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Dozens Of Tech Experts Ask Court To Not Force Apple To Unlock iPhone

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The day after Apple filed its formal objection to a Feb. 16 court order compelling the company to assist the FBI in unl...

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Barnes & Noble Is Opening 4 New Prototype Stores, Closing Fewer Than Expected

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J It was just three years ago that Barnes & Noble announced that it planned to close about one-third of the 689 store...

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Why Do Low-Fat Cheeses Always Have Lady Mascots?

http://ift.tt/1LCp6Qr Hold it right there, fella! You, with the reduced fat Galbani string cheese in your hand! Don’t you know that stuff is...

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Consumer Advocates Petition FCC To Stop Comcast Exempting Their Own Stuff From Data Caps

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Zero-rating — that thing where a company can exempt some services from data caps, to encourage customers to use it inst...

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Maytag Blue Cheese Recall Expands To Cover Hy-Vee Supermarkets

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The recall of potentially listeria contaminated Maytag Raw Milk Blue Cheese  expanded Thursday, as Hy-Vee announced it...

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Family Finds 7 Rare Ty Cobb Baseball Cards Hanging Out In A Crumpled Paper Bag

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J If I hadn’t already insisted on going through everything in my parents’ attic and basement back at home, I’d be calling...

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Sears Delivers Filthy Oven, Has No Idea Why

http://ift.tt/1TVQIRN A woman who loves to bake for her family saved for two years to buy a new built-in convection oven. Sears delivered it...

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Apple Will Now Offer Customer Support, Tips & Tricks On Twitter

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Have a quick question for Apple? If you can keep it within 140 characters then you can skip the email or phone call and...

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FBI: American Airlines Flight Attendant Deliberately Set, Distinguished Fire In Plane’s Bathroom

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Federal law enforcement officers have arrested an American Airlines flight attendant accusing him of deliberately start...

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Another Day, Another Company Switching To Cage-Free Eggs: This Time, It’s Kroger

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Hot on the heels of Albertsons Companies’ announcement that it will only source eggs from cage-free hens in all its va...

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U.S. Airlines Competing To Nab One Of 20 New Scheduled Routes To Havana

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Now that the United States and Cuba have decided to let bygones be bygones and relations are thawing between the two co...

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Federal Court Enters Injunction Against Grower Of Listeria-Laden Sprouts

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Back in 2014, we began asking whether everyone should just quit eating raw sprouts, and the sprout industry hasn’t don...

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Target Recalls Valentine’s Day-Themed Mugs That Pose Fire Hazard

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Imagine one morning sitting down to a nice cup of coffee in your cutesy mug only to realize its only lukewarm. No worri...

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Amazon Debuts New, Smaller Alexa-Enabled Devices: Echo Dot, Amazon Tap

http://ift.tt/1QnDE5m Alexa is getting a few friends, two, to be exact. Amazon today launched the Amazon Tap and Echo Dot, smart speakers th...

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Customer Claims Uber Driver Staged Vomit Scene To Collect Bogus $200 Cleaning Charge

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J If you own a car that you use to drive strangers around in, it’s a nasty, expensive surprise when one of your passenger...

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