Allstate Realizes It Should’ve Asked First, Pulls Image Of Sandy-Ravaged Home...
(Allstate) Although Allstate originally maintained that it hadn’t done anything wrong by using the image of a home ravaged by Sandy in an ad without obtaining permission from the couple who owned it,...
View ArticleSouthwest Helps Out Longtime Customer Even Though It Didn’t Have To
For more than 20 years, Consumerist reader Carl has been flying on Southwest Airlines, and he’s been a frequent customer of the carrier for around 15 years. Back in 2011, the airline revamped its...
View ArticleI Am Not Happy With My LG Range Because Cookies Should Not Be Set On Fire
That’s hot. Cookies are made by baking them in a hot oven for a short amount of time. Generally, this does not involve setting them on fire, unless you’re Doug. Not because he and his wife are running...
View ArticleIf Your Company Runs The Do Not Call List, Make Sure The Telemarketing...
One might think that if you’re a company that runs both the Do Not Call registry for a country as well as a telemarketing division, the two departments might compare notes once in a while. Because how...
View ArticleAIG Decides Not To Sue The Taxpayers That Bailed It Out
AIG thanks us by not suing us. Earlier today, the board of onetime Worst Company in America winner AIG met to discuss whether or not to pile on to a $25 billion lawsuit filed by its former CEO against...
View ArticleNo One At Snapfish Knows How To Upload A Photo That Won’t Be Cropped
Gil was under the impression that a company that lets you print photo books would actually let him add in his own collages without cropping the heck out of them. Not so fast, Gil! He wrote in to let us...
View ArticleShares Of Herbalife Fall After It Defends Itself Against Pyramid Scheme...
(Herbalife) Herbalife has been scrambling to do damage control and defend itself against accusations that it’s a fraud or as one hedge fund manager called it, a pyramid scheme. But after stating its...
View ArticleIs Anthem Blue Cross’ Mail-Order Drug Requirement Discriminatory?
Anthem and its parent company Wellpoint have been nominated multiple times for Consumerist’s Worst Company In America. Anthem Blue Cross, the largest for-profit health insurance in California, will...
View ArticleExpert Says Time Warner Cable Customers Are Cutting The Cord Because Of Bad...
Much of the coverage surrounding the phenomenon of cord-cutting has focused on the cost savings of ditching cable. But some of the blame for all these fleeing customers has to be pinned on the cable...
View ArticleWalmart Warns Suppliers They Better Abide By Stricter Rules Or Get Dropped
After a fire at a Bangladesh factory that supplied clothing to Walmart and other stores killed 112 workers in November, Walmart has announced that it is taking its suppliers around the globe to task...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Apparently Hitching Its Wagon To A Star Made Of Fish McBites
(McDonald’s wants you to want these) How do you keep profits from sinking? With buckets of fried fish bites, if you’re McDonald’s and looking for a quick boost to the menu. The company is reportedly...
View ArticleMother Probably Less Concerned With Size Of Subway Sandwich Than The Glass...
Today’s news is all shards and we haven’t stopped cringing: First it was the potential for metal shards in pizza and now a mother is claiming her three-year-old daughter ate pieces of glass that were...
View ArticleGird Your Mountain Dew-Soaked Loins: Dungeons & Dragons Archive Going Digital
All I need to do is close my eyes and I’m transported back to sometime in the mid-’80s, the unmistakeable scent of Cool Ranch Doritos wafting on the air and the sloshing of multiple liters of Mountain...
View ArticleSurvey: Top Brands For Buzz In 2012 Were Subway, Amazon And… Cheerios?
When you think about popular fast food chains, Subway is certainly among them. And Amazon.com is without a doubt the leader in online retail. But apparently the U.S. brand with the third-best “buzz”...
View ArticleCBS Also Refuses To Let CNET Review TV-Streaming Service Aereo
CBS is no fan of Aereo, so CNET doesn’t get to review it. Hot on the heels of inadvertently giving Dish’s ad-skipping Hopper DVR a publicity boost by refusing to let the editors of CNET give an award...
View ArticleThat Didn’t Last Long: JCPenney Brings Back Sales
Maybe people were staying away because they hated these shout-y JCPenney ads? Almost exactly a year after saying “NOOOOOO!” to sales and switching to an everyday low price model (and about six months...
View ArticleB2B Telemarketer Rage: A Perspective From The Other End Of The Phone Line
Usually, the people who write to us are besieged with calls from telemarketers or companies they’ve done business with, and want us to help make it stop. Brett is on the other side of the phone line....
View ArticleEgg Company Finally Unites Industry Terms “Chick” &“Laid” In Genius Marketing...
So you know how like, women are sometimes referred to as “chicks,” and then also so are baby chickens? Well someone has finally had the marketing smarts to unite the two in what is a pretty...
View ArticleTupperware CEO: Our Products Are Just Too Classy For America’s “Walmart Market”
You think you’re doing Tupperware a favor by sloshing your leftover peasant fare into its plastic receptacles? Ha! Far from it. The company’s CEO says the plastic containers are just too classy to...
View ArticleSurvey Says: Retail Workers Feel Least Connected To Employers
While there are plenty of people working in all levels of retail who want to do a good job, a new survey shows that only half of U.S. retail workers have the sense that they are even moderately engaged...
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