Ikea is investing 1.39 billion dollars to permanently cut prices on hundreds of products across Europe, with some items getting discounts of up to 29 percent.

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  joe1993

  At 95% off, they skip the 847 pieces entirely and just ship you a tree, a saw, and an AI generated pictogram of a man with 6 fingers pointing at a squirrel.

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Hard Mountain Dew is offering $1 million to anyone who can prove Bigfoot exists as part of a new fall marketing campaign

Silicon Valley workers are using the term "grindslop" to mock posts that glorify extreme work culture, like one founder's essay titled "Remember to not smile"

YouTube is now letting eligible U.S. creators tag Amazon products directly in their videos and earn commissions on every purchase

Amazon's internal forecasts show its own delivery network could handle nearly 90% of US packages by 2029.

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  ewalker

  The last UPS truck will roll into a warehouse and come out with a Prime sticker on it.

  811

McDonald's put together a 515 page file on one of its regular customers, and you can request your own data from the company too

At least 8 Los Angeles restaurants have closed this summer, including Crustacean, a 30-year-old Beverly Hills celebrity hotspot

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  justin1997

  This explains why every celebrity on the red carpet looks like a pool noodle wearing Chanel.

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Target, Walmart, and Home Depot are all racing to deliver your orders in under 3 hours because American shoppers apparently cannot wait any longer.

Influencers are in tears as Queen Violet, a popular West Hollywood restaurant known as an influencer hotspot, is closing after 5 years

DoorDash has launched a drone delivery service called DoorDash Air after the FAA cleared it to fly commercial drones in the US

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  ed.thompson

  Seagulls trained their whole lives to intercept a burrito mid-air.

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A former Netflix executive earning $1.1 million a year is suing the company after being fired for disclosing his medically prescribed ketamine therapy to colleagues at a work retreat

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  charlie_98

  He didn’t do the Netflix documentary trend. He became the Netflix documentary.

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DoorDash is paying drivers $5 to pick up restaurant orders and load them into its autonomous delivery robots

Someone paid $960,000 for a leather jacket that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wore to a Foxconn event in 2023

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  robert2002

  For that price it better come with a GPU in the pocket

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KFC officially dropped the name Kentucky Fried Chicken back in 1991, mostly to distance the brand from the unhealthy image of fried food.

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  ethan_smith

  A bold health initiative consisting entirely of changing the sign.

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SpaceX Has Lost $1 Trillion in Value Since Its Post-IPO Peak

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  lindarobinson27

  When the literal rocket company's stock won't go to the moon, the whole meme economy is in trouble. 🚀🌙

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The United Auto Workers union is furious after GM idled more than 1,000 workers at its Detroit plant and installed 50 new robots

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  riley.hernandez

  The union is demanding to know who trained the robots, and the answer is the guys they just laid off.

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Lab-grown diamonds have sent natural diamond prices to record lows, and analysts say the market may never fully recover

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  ruby1974

  Diamond companies need marriage to make a comeback before they worry about lab-grown competition.

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Sephora is rolling out sensory friendly quiet hours at all of its U.S. stores, with softer music, dimmer screens, and fewer scents for neurodivergent shoppers.

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  ella1989

  My husband has been requesting quiet hours at Sephora for years, he just calls it staying in the car.

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Walmart is rolling out digital price tags that can change prices with a single click, and critics worry the technology could lead to price gouging

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  goldenriver

  Rumor has it that if you pick up an item and put it back, it will beep and try to offer it to you for less. Anyone know if this is true?

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A new survey finds 8 in 10 HR professionals struggle to hire candidates with critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills

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  sharplegend

  I bet many candidates can do all three, they just refuse to do it for the salary being offered.

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Two Starbucks employees who fought off armed robbers were later fired for intervening

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  laurenstewart90

  Starbucks probably figured if these guys will fight armed robbers, how long before they turn on us and our coffee prices?

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Fashion brands are stuck with $5 billion in larger-size clothing as more people slim down quickly.

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  paul_walker

  I asked my tailor to take in my skirt, three days later she calls me asking if I wanted the leftovers made into curtains.

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Amazon has overtaken Walmart to claim the top spot on the Fortune 500 for the first time

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  ialexander

  Walmart lost the crown because Amazon figured out how to sell you garbage without making you smell a rotisserie chicken on the way in.

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L’Oca d’Oro, an Italian restaurant in Austin, is letting diners pay whatever they want every Tuesday.

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  spatterson

  This guy took me there Monday night and kept ordering more breadsticks while staring at the clock. Finally at midnight he tells me to order anything I want. Now it all makes sense.

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Sotheby's in New York is auctioning a T. rex named Gus for an estimated $20 to $30 million, the highest ever for a dinosaur.

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  jason_87

  They named him Gus because nothing moves $30 million of dead lizard like a name that sounds like he should be wearing New Balance sneakers.

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