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A shopper who revealed that her Walmart pick-up order ended with spilled milk seeping into the carpet of her trunk sparked debate on TikTok.

One of the most influential internet trolls from the 2016 election is on trial this week. The case against a man whose supporters dubbed the "meme martyr" is a smorgasbord of bizarre internet-centric figures and terminology.

An Australian man claimed that his pizza from Domino’s, which was supposed to come with an impressive edge-to-edge covering of 100 pepperonis, contained merely 41 pepperonis.

A Starbucks worker used TikTok to share that her manager caught her making six Frappuccinos in a batch.

When you shop at retail stores, you expect certain items like razors and expensive electronics to be under lock and key. But what about candy?

In 2021, Forbes estimated that there is about $100 billion worth of loyalty points across various retailers and businesses that have gone unused, and shoppers are coming up with creative ways to get themselves a piece of the action.

“We wrote the movie we wanted to see growing up,” said screenwriter Teresa Hsiao during the Q&A of the Joy Ride's SXSW premiere. Co-written with Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and directed by Adele Lim, Hsiao’s sentiment is apparent in this sincere and unapologetically unrestrained comedy about four Asian-American friends who arrive in Beijing for what starts as a business trip.

You never really know what your Airbnb rental is going to be like until you actually get inside. A couple specializing in travel TikTok content found out the hard way they'd booked the upstairs bedroom in someone's house—to the delight of many viewers.

AI tech is developing so fast that society is playing catch-up on how to actually use it. Case in point: The revelation that AI image-generators can be used to create impressively realistic (and cheap!) headshot photos of real people.

When a woman attempted to have her Instacart shopper select a replacement for an item that was out of stock, her shopper canceled the order, a situation that is resonating with viewers on TikTok.

DirecTV is on the defensive after reaching a new agreement with the far-right broadcaster Newsmax.

Servers are disagreeing on whether or not it's OK to confront patrons who don't leave tips.

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Panera Bread—a restaurant brand that's no stranger to TikTok virality—is facing backlash online from customers who claim that it’s too pricey and its menu items are nothing more than “glorified hospital food.”

A cashier on TikTok showed how she hacked her store's cash register screen so she could do homework on the job.

Analysis

TikTok’s got a thing for joking about percocet—probably because the prescription opioid is referenced in music frequently.

But percocet’s position as a mainstay in pop culture doesn’t take away from the gravity of the drug: Deaths by opioid overdose have been rising steadily since the epidemic started in the nineties. In 2021, over 80,000 people died from overdoses on drugs like percocet.

The first wave of the epidemic, as it's described by the Centers for Disease Control... Читать дальше...

After giving one customer only toppings and another $50 of just steak, Chipotle has again come under fire for making unauthorized substitutions to customers' orders after running out of the necessary ingredients.

In a now-viral video, a TikToker shows a job description that promises "highly competitive" pay, sparking debate about salary transparency in the comments section.

During day one of arts and technology conference South by Southwest (SXSW), a line wrapped nearly halfway around the fourth floor of the Austin Convention Center consisting entirely of attendees unable to get a seat in OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman’s featured session.

Users on Twitter are mistaking artificial intelligence (AI)-generated images of former President Donald Trump getting arrested as the real thing.

A man went viral after stating that the most important person at work is first on the chopping block to be fired.

A judge temporarily blocked 260 content moderators in Kenya from being laid off by Meta on Tuesday after the moderators sued the company over alleged discrimination, unlawful termination, and worker's rights violations.